Plainview Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 535-545 Weddle Rd., Casstown
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
National Register reference number. 85000857 - 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Plainview Farm in 2002, burning about 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Plainview Farm: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Tipp Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tipp Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tipp Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Miami County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1914 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Christiansburg quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Andrew Sheets House	1.0 miles	1988
Callahill and Priscilla Weddle House	1.0 miles	1987
Elizabeth Sheets Saunders Farm	1.8 miles	1976
Elizabeth Township Rural Historic District	2.0 miles	1997
Casstown Lutheran Stone Church	2.3 miles	1984
John Minor Dye Stone House	2.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000857 in Record Group 79.
Miami County	All 45 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.