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
one of 70 National Register listings in Muskingum County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80003183- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Factory Site between
2013 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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
27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Arson/incendiarism
4
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
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 365 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Factory Site between 1873 and
1973: 325 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, William, Buker, W.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
12 workings within 5 miles of Factory Site: 6 past producers, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ironspot, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
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
1,213 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
flavor resulting from its small Doric portico at the entrance.The industrial artifacts Over the years, various additions have been made inside the angle of the v," resulting Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ROBINSON-RANSBOTTOM POTTERY: INDUSTRIAL & RESIDENTIAL RESOURCES Muskingum County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER Factory: Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Co. Roseville, OH 43777 C. W. Ransbottom House : Roseville, OH * Mort Ransbottom House: Francis C. Thompson Roseville and Ironspot, then northwest c. 960' to the east bank to a point; then east c.
440' to the west side of the above- of Roseville, bounded on the east by Washington St., on the north by an unnamed alley, on the south by the property of the village of Roseville, bounded on the north by the C. W. Ransbottom property, on the east by Washington St., on the west by a 43777 PAGE Ownership Main Street Frank Ransbottom House: Mildred Lucas plant and its associated indistrial structures. RECEIVED 291 Washington Street Verbal Boundary Description Ronald Delbert c/o Alfred Ransbottom private residential lot;and on the south by Fifth Street.
Factory: Beginning at a point on the west side of the county road between CONTINUATION SHEET #2 152 North Main Street Peter G Amy Ransbottom Petratsis FOR NPS USE ONLY mentioned county road;then north along said road c.120' to DATE ENTERED Frank M.Ransbottom House:Part of Lot 8,Brown's Addition to the of Moxahala Creek;then southwest along Moxahala Creek c.1000' C.W.Ransbottom House:Part of Lot 9,Brown's Addition to the village to a point;then east c.640'to a point;then northeast c.300' MAR 1 L 1980 (Kev.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003183, 19 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.
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.
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.
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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