Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1987. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 14 National Register listings in Highland County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87001981- 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
2 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Scott, William, House between
2006 and 2007, burning about 11 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 burning
2
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 764 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Scott, William, House between 1894 and
1973: 547 Animalia, 156 Fungi, 48 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. Braun 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 federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Scott, William, House: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A brief tornado moved along a half mile path just north of Rocky Fork Lake. A restaurant along North Shore Road sustained minor siding damage. A real estate office along North Beach Road had portions of its aluminum roof peeled back or completely ripped off. The most extensive damage occurred to a residence about a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast of the real estate office. The home sustained major roof damage, and had an enclosed patio on its front porch completed removed and strewn behind the home. The majority of the patio was deposited into a deck and above ground pool behind the house, causing additional damage. A few trees between six and twelve inches in diameter were snapped between the real estate office and the residence.
Numerous trees were downed onto several houses along Ivy Hill Road. A garage door and wall were damaged at one residence. A few homes also had shingle and siding damage.
A roof was blown off a mobile home and several trees up to two feet in diameter were snapped near the base of the trunk along Dade Road. A storm survey determined the damage was caused by straight line winds, with gusts estimated up to 70 MPH.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
2,566 words on record
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.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates c. 1835 Cultural Affiliation Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.
The Scott, William, House is a significant example of early 19th century Hillsboro's two main thoroughfares makes it one of the most architecturally elliptical fanlights, 6/6 multi-paned widows, molded fascia board along the roofline, hip roof with balustrade and pedimented dormer, and entrance Pleasant, Charles, and Joshua were notable builders in Hillsboro during the much of their work shows the Georgian influence of tidewater Virginia the brothers also built the Federal and Greek Revival style Highland County Courthouse (NR: 8/24/78) between 1833-1835 and besides the Scott House, a House on Willow Street in c. 1833-34 (NR: 6/1/82).
The Mother Thompson House styling including paired end chimneys, dormers, portico entrances and overall X See continuation sheet Architecture classical details. Christopher Arthur Architect/Builder The builder of the Scott House is Christopher Arthur.He and his brothers, porticos with fluted Doric columns and pilasters defining the architectural house displays classically influenced features including doorways with been later additions since their detailing suggest the romantic influence of its overallmassing and details Georgian style architectural features.The The Scott House is perhaps the single most visible historic structure in isa one story flemish bond brick house distinguished by its Jeffersonian the Italianate style of the mid-19th century.
demolished in 1946,Woodland which burned in the 1930sand the Mother Thompson j nationally | statewide X]locally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Georgian architecture in southwestern Ohio. style. The unique cupola and projecting bay on the west elevation may have plantations and Jeffersonian Classicism. Christopher Arthur, the youngest of The Hillsboro.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87001981, 26 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.
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.
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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