Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.85001884- 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
1914 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19141992
Fires near this property
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kimball House
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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 100 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Kimball House between 1902 and 1973: 55 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Beattie R. K., Brodo, Irwin M. 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 National Weather Service names
Mechanicsburg, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood.
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.
United 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.
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
Substantive Review: Has this property been determined eligible? Working No. Date Due: Check one Reviewer's comments: Kimball House (Mechanicsburg MRA) nomination by person or local government NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Register UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Entered in the 8-29-85 yes ACCEPT OHIO unexposed good J justification of areas checked L Other 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By - Photographs Signed - Phone: _ Date title context Maps Period state applicable criteria Verbal boundary description and justification clarity relationship of integrity to
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification completeness summary paragraph Quadrangle name UTM References Areas of Significance-Check and justify below relating significance to the resource Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Acreage of nominated property justification of exception 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85001884, 7 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.
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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