Built in 1870. 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.
“The Colonel Crawford Burn Site Monument is a war monument in rural Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. Placed in the 1870s, it commemorates the death by burning of Colonel William Crawford during the concluding years of the American Revolution.”
Wikipedia article Col. Crawford Burn Site Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 8 National Register listings in Wyandot County · listed in 1982 · category: Object · built in 1870.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Crawford Township in Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913 names Crawford. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Crawford township is perhaps more replete with historic incidents than any other township in Wvyandot county, for it was here that the lamented Colonel Crawford suffered death by the Indians by being burnt at the stake, in 1782, and here a monument has since been erected to his memory. And it was in the wilds of this locality that the seven-year-old child of Mathew Brayton was captured by the Indians and never found.
Passage source: Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913.
Crawford township was organized in the county of Crawford in 1825, and became a part of Wyandot county in 1845. It is one of the northern tiers of townships of the county, and is bounded on the north by Seneca county, on the east by Tymochtee township, on the south by Salem township and on the west by Ridge township.
Passage source: Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Crawford Township - 1,621 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 247 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crawford, Col., Burn Site Monument between 1885 and 1975: 216 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz, Blyth, D. (David) & Katz, D. (David) 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768 | 1902 | Bonser, T. | Carey |
 | Puccinia caricina DC. | 1902 | T. Bonser | |
 | Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775 | 1885 | not recorded | Crane |
 | Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845) | 1885 | not recorded | Crane |
 | Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852 | 1893 | United States Fish Commission | McCutchenville, Sandusky River |
 | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | not recorded | Sandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio |
 | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1893 | not recorded | Sandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio |
 | Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) Lange & C.E.O.Jensen | 1899 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel | 1900 | Bonser Thos. | Wyandot Co. |
| Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd. | 1900 | Thos. Bouser | Big Spring Prairie | |
 | Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 | 1901 | Thos A. Bonser | Carey, S. of |
 | Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T.Aiton | 1901 | Bonser, T.A. | Carey |
All 247 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crawford, Col., Burn Site Monument: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carey Plant & Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Wyandot Dolomite, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $10,000 | Wyandot County Sheriff Dispatch and a social media post reported several trees down in the Carey area in northwestern Wyandot County. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | - | Several trees, about one to two feet in diameter, were snapped at their bases about two-miles southeast of Carey. |
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.
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.
- archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture. _ religion _ conservation -law - literature x military (commemorative)ocial/ _ art - engineering - music X 1800-1899 - exploration/settlement - philosophy . industry .transportation _ invention in Mansfield, Ohio, the burn site monument has acquired its own
(in one paragraph) by some 5000 people; the locally famous orator, William Henry Gibson of Tiffin, and has assumed an important role as a pilgimage site in the county for anyone interested in the history of the county or Crawford's famous campaign.
The monument the Tymochtee Creek, and Crawford's torture began; he was tied to a stake, shot full of the famous picnics that grew of the dedication ceremony, but this has disappeared, county and secretary of the Pioneer Association.He had been suggesting it for several The Colonel Crawford Burn Site Monument is being nominated as the only tangible supposedly passed down in oral tradition for some years, with the stories included in Therefore the famous site itself cannot be nominated for the was erected by the Wyandot Pioneer Association on August 30,1877 at a picnic attended not attempt to locate." Tymochtee Creek valley near this monument in 1782.Crawford's death was the first but Girty was unable to help.Crawford and Knight were then taken to the east bank of that "it was somewhere on what is now the south half of section twenty-six, of township county 1ife until the last one was held June 13,1935.Like the Mansfield Blockhouse Gottfried, Ray D.
Watkins Printing Co, 1976 Acreage of nominated property Less than I acre 11.
The whole case file for this property - 3,303 words, 23 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82003667, 23 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | West End Elementary School | 3.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Parker Covered Bridge | 4.9 miles | 1975 |
 | Indian Mill | 5.9 miles | 1970 |
 | Wyandot Mission Church | 6.7 miles | 1976 |
 | Walker, William, Jr., House | 7.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Wyandot County Courthouse and Jail | 7.6 miles | 1973 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003667 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Wyandot County | All 8 listed properties in this county. |
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