Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1928.
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 25 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
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.
Then and now
1928 to 1991
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
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.
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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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.
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