Tripp--Bauer Building

The chapter on Bloom Township in A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names South Webster. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Tripp--Bauer Building between 2002 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 129 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tripp--Bauer Building between 1898 and 1975: 87 Fungi, 35 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J., Bryant, J.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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Polyporus semipileatus Peck	1928	Walter Phillips	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1928	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Alternaria Nees	1919	Ricker A. J.	Wheelersburg

All 129 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tripp--Bauer Building: 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.

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Webster, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Scioto County

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.

The whole case file for this property - 2,793 words, 23 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 88000719, 23 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.