BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rock Hollow School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S of Ringgold on SR 67, Ringgold, 43758
- When was it listed? 1983-01-11
- Category. building
- Township. Union township
- National Register reference number. 83002014 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
9,449 wordsThe chapter on Union Township in History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names Ringgold. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
George Coler was one of the early settlers. He was witty, sharp, and shrewd, and withal a very intelligent man. At the time that Mr. Amos was laying out Ringgold he assisted the surveyors, and it became necessary for one of the chainmen to wade the creek. Coler suggested that it would be a saving of time to strike an air line and work it out by algebra,
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
Robert Love and wife were amona: the early pioneers. They came from Belmont County, Ohio, in 1822. They reared a large family. John Love, one of his sons, like his father, was a great hunter. He married Sally Frazier about 1830, and had a- family of seven boys and two girls. Robert Love, the present postmaster of Ringgold, is a descendant.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
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 Union Township - 9,449 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
19 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Rock Hollow School between 2006 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15255 |
| 5 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | ALDER |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BOC FIRE |
| 17 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURLEY FIRE |
| 3 May 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | EAST |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11385 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAKE ROAD |
| 4 April 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | WATER WORKS |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 322 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 322 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rock Hollow School between 1887 and 1973: 285 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
 | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
 | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
 | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
 | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
All 322 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringgold, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $2,000 | Large tree branches and power lines were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $2,000 | Trees fell across Route 78 and several county and township roads. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $500 | A downed tree was observed along County Route 15 and East Branch Road near Corning. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | - | Large branches fell down on roads. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Adams Covered Bridge | 5.1 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002014 in Record Group 79. |
| Morgan County | All 6 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.