National Register reference number.87002551- 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.
Then and now
1925 to 1984
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of O. P. Chaney Grain Elevator
between 2010 and 2020, burning about 26 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
3
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 715 specimens
collected within 10 miles of O. P. Chaney Grain Elevator between 1895 and 1975: 704 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bill May, C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of O. P. Chaney Grain Elevator: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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
Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally statewide XX locally Applicable National Register Criteria B XX C Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) B C Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Architecture Agriculture D JE G Period of Significance 1880 - 1937 Significant Dates 1880 Cultural Affiliation N/A Significant Person N/A Architect/Builder N/A State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The O. P. Chaney Grain Elevator is historically significant as the last remnant of the once thriving grain business in Canal Winchester.
It is architecurally significant as a well-preserved example of a late nineteenth century rural grain elevator. Winchester (now Canal Winchester) was founded in 1828 in response to construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal. It is situated in one of the most fertile townships of : Franklin County. Expanded markets for the surrounding region's crops were provided for by the canal, and later (1869) the Hocking Valley Railroad. As a result, the processing and handling of grain was a major enterprise of Canal Winchester. This resulted in the construction of an array of grain warehouses, grain elevators and mills throughout the history of the village. first grist mill in the township dated to 1806-7.
The first grain warehouse was built in the town in 1833-4 which began a history of related activity continuing into the 1970'g when major improvements were still being made to existing facilities. These facilitieg tended to be located on the canal at both sides of High Street or near the railroad tracks at High Street. The last vestige of Canal Winchester's grain related business, the Winchester Milling Company, closed down in 1978.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002551, 32 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.
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