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
“Wood Old Homestead, also known as Bob Evans Farm, is a farm in Bidwell, Ohio, near the city of Rio Grande, where American restauranteur Bob Evans and his wife Jewell lived for nearly 20 years, raising their six children. The large brick farmhouse was formerly a stagecoach stop and an inn, and now serves as a company museum.”
Wikipedia article Wood Old Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 7 National Register listings in Gallia County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87002144- 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
52 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Wood Old Homestead between
2006 and 2020, burning about 119 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
37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 205 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wood Old Homestead between 1900 and
1974: 135 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. M. Evans, Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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
1 working within 5 miles of Wood Old Homestead: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. 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
Rio Grande, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.
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
2,283 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
Xlocally Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. place for travellers and mail delivery on the stagecoach line, from this Federal style, two-story, L-shaped, five bay brick building was 1985 building survey completed in Gallia County, no other properties of this exhibiting a smooth symmetrical facade, with tooth-like dentils, and a stop is the Gibson House in Jackson, Jackson County, NR 12/5/85. X See continuation sheet 1820-1877 1862 Architecture Commerce Architect/Builder Unknown Significant Dates constructed for Nehemiah Wood, an early county postmaster.
This house Homestead was a stagecoach stop for many years, and became the way station for Significant Person an inn/tavern as well as using it as their family home. example of Federal architecture and as a distinctive building type in typical of the house types with which Wood would have been familiar, having facade, and with brick flat arches on the elevations.
sidelights and a transom, surrounded by delicate columns and low relief Period of Significance The building is unusual in southeast Ohio as a building type.Built in 1820, fretwork.Windows are simply highlighted with stone lintels and sills on the connecting Gallipolis and Chillicothe, also known as the Jackson Pike.:The the newly established mail route from Gallipolis to Chillicothe via Jackson, Applicable National Register Criteria type were found in the county. of some 5oo inventory forms completed.
replaced a log structure he and his family had lived in on the property since other brick buildings like the Old Homestead exist in towns where the Cultural Affiliation replaced by the modern U.S.35,about one tenth of a mile to the south.No lived in the Shenandoah Valley and Charleston before moving to Ohio.Ina Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) low-pitched gabled roof.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002144, 22 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
2 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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