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
“Omar Chapel is a historic church building in Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States. It was completed in 1843 in the Greek Revival style and was once known as the Second Regular Baptist Church of Reed Township.”
Wikipedia article Omar Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 35 National Register listings in Seneca County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87001982- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 51 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 51 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Omar Chapel between 1894 and
1969: 38 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by C A Foster, Caldwell, Class & Daiber, F. C. (Frank C.) 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
Attica, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind.
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 thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured by a trained spotter. Also, another trained spotter in Attica reported several downed trees during this 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.
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From the nomination file
2,658 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
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance 1843 - c. 1860s Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. remainder of the early settlement period in this area of the county, being the of Omar, which was the first settlement in Reed Township, Seneca County, and a into 89 lots, once contained two church buildings, a post office, a general store, a frame and later a brick schoolhouse, a blacksmith shop, a tavern, a building seventeen years later, the chapel was used for all religious services 22, 1971. Township. It has never had interior electrical lights, water, or fuel lines.
1843 Architecture Unknown Exploration/Settlement Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation supporting a classical entablature and pedimented overhang extending from the Significant Dates original United Brethren Church on Eden and Liberty Streets in Attica (now a community declined in the second half of the nineteenth century when it was residence),and the First Baptist Church in Attica (both greatly altered),as only surviving building from the early/mid-19th century community of Omar. well as the Dr.Bowen House and the Union Church building in the hamlet of livery which was a part of the underground railroad, and a race track.The In addition to being the only remaining building from the former community.
gable roof.These Greek Revival features combine to create a simple but Omar Chapel was erected in 1843 as the Second Regular Baptist Church of Reed Omar Chapel is significant as an excellent example of Greek Revival bypassed by the railroad.Until the Methodists built their own church West Lodi in a state of disrepair).
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87001982, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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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