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Athens State Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Athens County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. OH 682 and Richland Ave., Athens
  • When was it listed? March 1980
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 80002936 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Athens State Hospital, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet covering Athens State Hospital, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Athens State Hospital between 2006 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestBEAN HOLLOW
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning1.3 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12805
22 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestROLL IN

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002936 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Athens CountyAll 28 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.