Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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 7 National Register listings in Gallia County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003572- 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
28 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ewington Academy between
2006 and 2016, burning about 179 acres 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
Debris and open burning
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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 93 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ewington Academy between 1900 and
1974: 35 Plantae, 34 Animalia, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C., C. H. Jones 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
Ewington, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A man drowned along a swollen Racoon Creek and a low spot along Route 325 near the village of Vinton. Otherwise, county officials reported no flooding. ||According to a state report, the driver drove partially into water covering the road, but then backed out. This was at night. The driver then pulled into a nearby driveway and asked the property owner if he thought he could make it through the water. The property owner told the driver that if he could see the edge lines, he should be okay. The driver then proceeded to drive into the water, where his pickup truck was caught by the current and swept downstream. The driver was able to get out of his truck. The property owner ran over to try to help, offering a long stick to the driver, telling him to swim toward it. The driver was unable to make it. His body was recovered a few hours later.
Shepards White Oak Creek flooded County Route 115, which is also known as Upcreek Road. The headwater areas of White Oak and Kyger Creeks flooded portions of Route 554. ||No structures were affected and nobody drove their vehicles into the high water.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned 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.
Description of the property
Condition ruins excellent fair The interior has not been altered from the original. Check one chimney. structures on that side of the street and is surrounded by one acre of land.The The gable end faces the street; the building itself is setback farther than most other The roof was originally slate and has been'replaced with metal;it features a central symmetrically placed on. lst and 2nd stories on either side of the door; they are 2/2 vent in the gable end. X good figuration, measuring 32 x 50'. It features a stone foundation and has no basement.
date deteriorated unexposed The Ewington Academy is a two story frame gable roofed structure of rectangular con- and feature shaped Greek Revival type lintels.Other windows around the building are identical.All second story windows have been boarded up to stabilize them until Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric - landscape architecture - religion _ archeology-historic _ conservation - law _ science _ economics - literature - sculpture _education - military _ social/ . engineering . music _ 1800-1899 _exploration/settlement - philosophy - theater - industry - politics/government _ transportation - invention 1858-59 1600-1699 1700-1799 commerce 1400-1499 1500-1599 original. architecture communications humanitarian agriculture Specific dates 1900- building.
commitment to secondary education before the advent of high schools in the area. The classes taught at the school were considered to be on the level above elementary, by members of the Ewington community. elementary school and continued in that capacity until just after World War Il.It Citizens Literary Institute who bought land and had the building constructed in 1858 It is the oldest academy building in Gallia County and virtuallyunaltered from the now serves as a meeting place for the local American Legion post and is cared for Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Ewington Academy is significant as being representative of a small rural community's William Ewing, founder of Ewington, designed and supervised construction of the The Ewington Academy was chartered in 1857; organized by the Trustees of the Ewington 8. Significance - other(specify) so in a sense this was the forerunner of the modern concept of a high school. _ archeology-prehistoric _ community planning and 1859 through popular subscription. George Ewing, a carpenter and grandson of opened. When the local elementary school burned, the academy reopened as a public Builder/Architect Period George Ewing art 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003572, 9 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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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