National Register reference number.88002749- 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
1903 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031994
Fires near this property
12 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Luther B. Ranney Farm
between 1993 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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.
Reported cause
Fires
Natural
3
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 914 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Luther B. Ranney Farm between 1877 and 1973: 858 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 13 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, A. Woolman 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Luther B. Ranney Farm: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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
Cultural Affiliation Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) This property is part of the original 60 acre farm settled in 1820 by Comfort Ranney, an State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The five bay house with center door and side gable roof with strong Greek Revival elements cornice returns on the gable end and doorways that reflect a strong Greek Revival can be found often in the Western Reserve.Other houses of this configuration in the early pioneer in the Western Reserve.Luther B. Ranney, who was 14 at the time of his "Christmas Tree Lady of Boston Heights."The farm was owned by the Ranney family for 146 NPS Form 10-900-s OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Luther B.
Ranney Farm, Boston Heights, Summit County, Ohio Interior mantels, doors, door and window surrounds, wainscoting, built-in cupboard, Section number Page the historic outbuildings. 1986,it has suffered no recent alterations or changes in materials on the interior and Continuation Sheet current plans call for restoration of the house and grainery and continued maintenance of National Register of Historic Places The house and outbuildings and 4.19 acres have been purchased by Charles Butler and United States Department of the Interior floors, stairs and stair railing remain intact. Although the house has been vacant for two years, since the death of Carrie Ranney in except for the new wood siding on the south side of the main house, none on the exterior.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88002749, 30 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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