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Photograph of Christopher C. Walker House and Farm
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cristopher C. Walker House and Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 4 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Darke County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Walker, Cristopher C., House and Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SW of New Madison, N of OH 121, New Madison
  • When was it listed? April 1982
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82003561 - 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cristopher C. Walker House and Farm in 2002, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 November 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Darke County

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 Cristopher C. Walker House and Farm: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Fort Jefferson Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Hollinger Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hollinger Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Darke County

Maps showing this location

4 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

2 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
Knights of Pythias Hall1.8 miles2018
Fort Jefferson Site7.1 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Darke CountyAll 28 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.