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Photograph of Joseph L. DeYarmon House
Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

DeYarmon, Joseph L. House

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 13 National Register listings in Holmes County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SW Corner of Co. 129 and Twp. 273, Lakeville, 44638
  • When was it listed? 1982-05-04
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 82003599 - 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of DeYarmon, Joseph L. House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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 April 2020Smoking3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15655
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4331
14 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4327
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14825
10 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7725
18 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3848
29 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3508

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 192 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 192 specimens collected within 10 miles of DeYarmon, Joseph L. House between 1896 and 1975: 178 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila), D.L. Caldwell 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Agastache scrophulariifolia, not of this specimenAgastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze1896not recordedLakeville
A photograph of the species Coreopsis tripteris, not of this specimenCoreopsis tripteris L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Decodon verticillatus, not of this specimenDecodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Polygonum coccineum, not of this specimenPolygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Pontederia cordata, not of this specimenPontederia cordata L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Equisetum ferrissii, not of this specimenEquisetum × ferrissii Clute1908Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Platanthera lacera, not of this specimenPlatanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don1909Hopkins, L.S.Odell's Lake
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1911Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1913Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
Quercus imbricaria Michx.1913Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Black Creek, at Glenmont, ~0.1 mi S of Glenmont, Richland township

All 192 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011FloodLakeville$300,000Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to widespread flooding across Holmes County. Rainfall totals across the county ranged from one to three inches on February 27th and 28th. Up to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground at the onset of the rain. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Hundreds of homes in the county sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding. Many roads had to be closed because of the flooding. The Killbuck Creek crested at 18.07 feet, the eight highest height on record. South end of Millersburg and western portions of the Killbuck sustained flood damage.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLakeville$200,000Straight line winds from a thunderstorm downburst caused considerable damage at a campground along the Ashland/Holmes county line west of Lakeville. Around sixty trees and thirty one power poles were reported down at the campground. A pontoon boat was also flipped over. The downburst continued east from the campground and moved through the Lakeville area where it downed dozens of trees and damaged several buildings. The damage path continued east to Holmesville where four apartment buildings and a business lost large sections of roof. Several hundred trees were downed in northern Holmes County from this downburst which produced winds estimated to be nearly 70 mph. Widespread power outages were reported.
June 2002HailLakeville$5,000Dime size hail was observed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLakeville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and several large limbs two miles west of Lakeville.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLakeville$1,000A few tree limbs were reported down.
May 2014HailLakeville-Hail the size of quarters was observed.
April 2013HailLakeville-A trained weather spotter estimated quarter to half dollar size hail near Lakeville.
June 2010HailLakeville-Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.
June 1998HailLakeville-Large hail (0.75") also fell at Nashville.

Every storm recorded in Holmes County

Map coverage status

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

3,043 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

of a rusticated stone foundation that can be found on the front and sides, while rubble and south side of the building while an Italianate porch is found on the north side. sash offers height and simplicity. Each bay shares a narrow plain lug sill and ornately lighting fixtures, cherry and walnut woodwork, and The barn burned around 1910 so there are no original out buildings. A garage position of the house and the proximity of the large evergreens, the house is part of its own world. date Condition deteriorated unexposed five transoms constructed of ruby red glass. has been added near the main house and reflects the same color scheme. plumbing, Check one ..ruins -altered hip roof allows 4 large gables to project.

Each gable is trimmed with a series of white dentils leading down to the gable end returns. Inside each gable is a double arch bay that crowns the tier treatment of the windows. Two bay windows are featured on the east The red American brick bond facade is boldly but delicately highlighted with the Italianate by paired brackets.

Read the complete 3,043-word case file.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) tecture which is well preserved. family was quite self-sufficient as 3 oil wells, a spring and cisterns were part of DeYarmon's property. Since the time of its construction, it is obvious the builder 1600-1699 1878 1400-1499 economics commerce conservation invention communications 1500-1599 engineering humanitarian education Builder/Architect theater science music social literature Specific dates transportation law sculpture Period 1900- Significance in the Loudonville-Lakeville area. Mid 19th century documentation reveals that Joseph DeYarmon owned 20 acres.The military The DeYarmon House is the largest nineteenth century residence extant in the small exploration settlement X 1800-1899 ruby red transoms. Even below the bay Joseph Derarmon was the son of Dr.

Joseph DeYarmon, whose family traveled from window one finds 3 large basement windows ready to accept the early morning light. Pennsylvania to Wooster. After his father's death in 1851, the two sons, Joseph and community of Lakeville. Its great size and elaborate ornamentation distinguish the DeYarmon from other nearby buildings.It is an excellent example of Italianate archi- the property.The main facade faces directly east and each morning the sun'srays 10.

The whole case file for this property - 3,043 words, 18 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82003599, 18 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003599 in Record Group 79.
Holmes CountyAll 13 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.
  • 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.