Godwin-Knowles House

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Godwin-Knowles House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Godwin-Knowles House between 1895 and 1975: 257 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Athearn, Herbert D., Beer, F.H., Bright, J. 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
	Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon	1916	E.K. Seymour	Lower campus
	Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	F.O. Grover	On Campus
	Hypochnicium analogum (Bourdot & Galzin) J.Erikss.	1963	W. B. Cooke, V.G. Cooke	woods near roadside park, SR-7, 3 mi. s. of Rogers.
	Polyporus luridus Kalchbr.	1895	Holden Wm.	Spring Grove
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	East Liverpool
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1900	Shafer, J.A.	[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
	Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.	1901	Miller, J.	Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
	Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.	1901	Miller, J.	Clarkson
	Epigaea repens L.	1901	Miller, J.	Clarkson
	Hetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)	1901	E. B. Williamson	Clarkson
	Valerianella Mill.	1901	Miller, J.	Rough Run near Clarkson
	Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.	1901	Miller, J.	Rough Run, near Clarkson

All 377 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Godwin-Knowles House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Silica, Titanium, Aluminum, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Liverpool, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana County

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.

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.

• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
• 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1996 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000

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.

The whole case file for this property - 1,036 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 85003515, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Homer Laughlin House	under 500 feet	1985
	Carnegie Public Library	under 500 feet	1980
	East Liverpool Post Office	under 500 feet	1976
	Potters National Bank	under 500 feet	1985
	Mary A. Patterson Memorial	under 500 feet	1985
	Cassius Clark Thompson House	under 500 feet	1971