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Photograph of Belmont Historic District
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Belmont Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Belmont County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Belmont Historic District between 2002 and 2017, burning about 55 acres 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2017Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7568
15 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2014Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Maps showing this location

7 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
Dr. Lindley Schooley House and Office0.1 miles1982
Epworth Park Historic District2.0 miles2025
Morristown Historic District3.0 miles1980
James Kinney Farmstead3.3 miles1999
Brick Tavern House4.4 miles1995
Great Western Schoolhouse4.4 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Belmont CountyAll 23 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.