BlockFrom the record
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1985 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ripley Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Main, Front, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sts., Ripley
- When was it listed? March 1985
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 85000552 - 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
1915 to 1991The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ripley Historic District in 2003, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ripley Historic District: 1 producer. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maysville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1915 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Farmers Branch, State Bank of Ohio | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | John P. Parker House | 0.2 miles | 1997 |
 | John P. Parker House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | John Rankin House | 0.3 miles | 1970 |
| Henry Martin Farm | 2.2 miles | 1975 | |
| Stonehurst | 2.4 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85000552 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 25 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.