Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1983. 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 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83002000- 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
2 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Side Planing Mill (rear) between
2015 and 2020, burning about 1 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
2
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 2,882 specimens
collected within 10 miles of West Side Planing Mill (rear) between 1843 and
1975: 2,561 Animalia, 236 Fungi, 56 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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
4 workings within 5 miles of West Side Planing Mill (rear): 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Newark, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 5 flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed.
A 30-foot by 30-foot section of a roof was ripped off of a building on the southeast side of town. A construction trailer was turned on its side, and a steel overhang was pulled off of a home, causing minor damage to a wall.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,948 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
courtyard between these building is.used for sorting lumber.A square cement block bin located at the northwest corner of the first floor plan).Chemical fire Check one Straight Line Rip Saw (wooden table) A large number of double-hung windows provide light for the working areas on the interior. down the center of the ceiling of the first floor.The machinery is located beneath the X altered The West Side Planing Mill is located in the center of a residential block on the west "Hermance" when it was constructed asa barn for mules working on the Ohio and Erie Canal. The age of the barn is undetermined, but is thought to date to the late 19th century, side of the city of Newark.It is a two-story rectangular frame building with low OMP NO. 1024-0018 EXr.
12/31/84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service West Side Planing Mill, Newark, Licking County, Ohio Woodworkers Tool Works Osborn & Sexton Machine Co. Columbus, Ohio The second floor is reached through stairs on the north and eastern walls. The machinery is located directly above the line shaft below and the belts pass through holes in the floor. A glue and spray booth is located in the southwest corner of the second floor. A list of the equipment on this floor follows: 24" Drum Sander Double Arbor Table Saw Leetonia, Ohio 36" Band Saw Double Head Spindle Shaper Grand Rapids, Michigan 16" Jointer H.B. Smith Machine Co. Chicago, Illinois 9' Lathe Several racks of various molding cutter blades are located on both floors of the building.
A chip collection system of metal pipes is connected to much of the machinery and blown into the bin adjacent to the mill. Company Description Page Name Egan Co.
(in one paragraph) of shop technology from turn-of-the-century America. It is a complete woodworking of an active shop from the early 20th century that may be unique in the entire state. and Ernest Elmer Walters in a horse barn on the "west side" of Newark. The equipment was acquired second-hand from the Jewett Street Car Works in Newark after that firm the property in 1981 and is committed to continuing the operation in as historically 1800-1899 1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 1921 communications commerce transportation economics industry conservation archeology-historic humanitarian science music Technology law engineering Xother(specify) Specific dates literature education accurate a manner as possible.
The shop was established in1921 by two carpenter Meridith Walters invention military _ archeology-prehistoric - community planning shop with belt driven machinery dating between 1886 to 1915 and was set up in 1921. Furthermore, it's present operation as a commercial enterprise provides a rare glimpse went out of business in 1919. The firm produced the standard wooden millwork including Period Jones, Tom. Interview, August 1981. less than l acre Quadrangle scale 1:24000 UMT References Nominated property consists of Lot #693-65, measuring 93' X 86.5'. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries David A.
Simmons Ohio Historical Preservation Office April 8, 1982 telephone 614/466-1500 city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83002000, 20 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 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.
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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