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Second Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1926.

From the record

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Scioto County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 2nd St., Portsmouth
  • When was it listed? November 1983
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 83004336 - 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.

Then and now

1926 to 1981

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Second Street Historic District, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet covering Second Street Historic District, surveyed 1926

Fires near this property

134 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Second Street Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,863 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 were 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism26
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesPORTSMOUTH
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesROSEMOUNT
14 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHEEP HOLL
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHURCH STR

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Second Street Historic District: 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, OhioIronProducer
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Own Crews QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Portsmouth WorksClayPlant
South Shore Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

NewspaperPublished
The Portsmouth Inquirer1849 to 1855

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Zottman House0.3 miles1996
Hurth Hotel0.3 miles1983
General U.S. Grant Bridge0.3 miles2001
Anderson Brothers Department Store0.3 miles2001
Second Presbyterian Church0.4 miles1996
William Newman House0.4 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004336 in Record Group 79.
Scioto CountyAll 41 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.
  • 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.