Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1981. 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 Mercer Log House is a large log cabin in the city of Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Home to the city's first settlers and changed very little since their time, it is one of Ohio's best preserved log cabins from the settlement period, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Mercer Log House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.81000433- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 644 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 644 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mercer Log House between 1839 and
1975: 503 Animalia, 78 Fungi, 57 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A JOHN, A. R. Gaufin, A.E. Jenkins 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Mercer Log House: 5 past producers, 2 plants.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fairborn, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 31 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 7 flood, 3 heavy rain.
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.
Large tree limbs were downed. The roof of an office building partially collapsed and an exhibit tent was destroyed near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The tornado first touched down about a mile north of Fairborn in Greene County where some minor tree damage occurred in Fairborn Park. The tornado passed over the northern end of Wright Patterson Air Force Base with some additional minor tree damage located along Osborn Road in extreme northwest Greene County. The tornado then moved into extreme southeast Clark County, about 2.1 miles north-northeast of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, before ending about 1.9 miles southwest of Crystal Lakes at 2016EST.
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
1,642 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
facade.A two story central porch has been removed because of its poor condition. windows flank the central doors on both the first and second floor levelsof the of its conditions.Paint remmants in the rear siding indicate a smaller gable roofed _ unaltered The Mercer Log Houseis located at the southwest corner of North First and Middle however, was not finished to the exterior of the logs suggesting the presence of an early wing was located here previously. Doors entered a rear wing at both lower and upper deteriorated The interior contains no partitions and the stairway is in the southwest corner Alow gable roof with shingles.covers the house.A large opening was cut into the 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) as a variety of new openings were cut into the original pen.Because of the integrity - - other (specify) - archeology-prehistoric - - community planning . landscape architecture _ religion ca 1799-1829 assessment of the lot increased substantially in 1829 suggesting at least an enlargement Specific dates 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 81000433, 14 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.
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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