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
“The Monroe Bank building is located at 117 Main Street in Woodsfield, Ohio. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1980.”
Wikipedia article Monroe Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 9 National Register listings in Monroe County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80003167- 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.
Fires near this property
12 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Bank between
2012 and 2020, burning about 22 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 burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 390 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Monroe Bank between 1860 and
1975: 368 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 National Weather Service names
Woodsfield, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 flash flood, 3 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Minor low-land flooding was first reported in Woodsfield. In 45 minutes 1.2 inches of rain was recorded at Woodsfield and Lewisville. State Route 26 between Graysville and Rinard Mills was closed. SR 260 was closed near Sycamore Valley. Wills, Skin, Rich Fork and Wolfpen Creeks all went out of their banks. Numerous small streams were also flooded. SR 26, CR 68 and Twp 562 flooded near the Little Muskingum River. Flooding was also reported along SR 379 in Seneca Township. SR 78, west of Lewisville, was closed.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
From the nomination file
1,649 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.
Description of the property
on the upper three stories. stories; the spandrel on the southwest corner is inscribed 1903."Other similar panels units of the western elevation as well as on the third floor of the northern side. span of the baluster is a decorative portion inscribed "1903." ter moulding is intact. The two safes, including a gold vault, which were built by Hall's Safe of Cincinnati are operable. with a balcony and Corinthian type column two stories tall supporting a portion of the are found below the third floor cornice. Engaged columns are featured between window elevator remains intact and is used today. Skylights are found above the elevator shaft and the main staircase.
Around twenty-five fireplaces are still in working order frontispiece.T cornice dividing the third and fourth floors.A small balcony is set directly above The entrance at the southwest corner retains its Corinthian columns on south and west elevations.The building's plan shape is rectangular with the southwest aluminum baluster runs around the perimeter of the roof.In the center of the eastern The interior of the main entrance features a 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Monroe Bank, founded in 1874 by Col. S. L. Mooney, was once the only bank in 1903 1600-1699 1400-1499 1800-1899 1500-1599 1700-1799 communications Builder/Architect transportation education engineering commerce art politics/government philosophy humanitarian military Period science invention music landscape architecture agriculture Specific dates sculpture literature largest and most architecturally sophisticated structures in Monroe County.Also law a predominately rural county where low-scale structures of simple architectural styling significant are the innovations it featured at the time of its construction.It was distinctive commercial structure.
equipped with its own physical plant to power its up-to-date electric, gas and heating nominated structure was built on the site of the original bank and remains one of the architectural elements are intact and operable today.Woodsfield is a small village in predominates, and the Monroe Bank looms over the community as its largest and most Monroe County and until its closing in 1928,was the largest bank in Woodsfield.The _ archeology-prehistoric _ community planning viced the upper floors. The baluster on the roof is made of aluminum, an unusual choice 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003167, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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