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Pisgah Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Pisgah Christian Church is a historic Church of Christ house of worship located outside of Ripley in rural Brown County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1850s for a quarter-century-old congregation, it has been designated a historic site.”

Wikipedia article Pisgah Christian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 21 National Register listings in Brown County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Brown County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NW of Ripley on Pisgah Rd., Wilmington, 45167
  • When was it listed? 1980-11-21
  • Category. building
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 80002945 - 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.

The ground it stands on

49,884 words

This property stands in Union Township. The History of Brown County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Brown County; Constitution of the United States .., published 1883 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Union Township - 49,884 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 285 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 285 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pisgah Christian Church between 1883 and 1974: 246 Animalia, 34 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1938R. RhoadesSmall Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stictis Pers., not of this specimenStictis Pers., 18001883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercospora sordida, not of this specimenCercospora sordida Sacc.1899King H. B.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera peckii U.Braun1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Microsphaera ravenelii, not of this specimenMicrosphaera ravenelii Berk.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1899Patterson F. W.Ripley

All 285 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pisgah Christian Church: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown County Engineer Lms. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Maysville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
White Oak Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

From the nomination file

1,364 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Pisgah Christian Church is being nominated on the basis of its social/ _ community planning landscape architecture - _ religion X architecture exploration/settlement _ that the building was constructed in 1854 and "rebuilt" in 1871. Builder/Architect Un Known 1600-1699 philosophy archeology-prehistoric and its absolutely unchanged architecture and furnishings--is not this special aesthetic value, and is committed to the preservation of occurred in 1871,or why they were undertaken.No major changes of any The building is also used by various community groups Pisgah Church is outstanding for its excellent crafts- done so since then.

The whole case file for this property - 1,364 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80002945, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Burgett House And Barn0.9 miles1978
Martin, Henry, Farm1.3 miles1975
Stonehurst1.3 miles1975
Parker, John P., House2.8 miles1980
Parker, John P., House2.8 miles1997
Farmers Branch, State Bank of Ohio3.1 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown CountyAll 21 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.