Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1989. 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
one of 59 National Register listings in Mahoning County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.89001456- 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
1 since 2019
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Damascus Grade School between
2019 and 2019, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 256 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Damascus Grade School between 1883 and
1975: 148 Animalia, 91 Plantae, 17 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, Anderson, B., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel 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
Damascus, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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
2,024 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
Cameron, H.E. State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The Damascus Grade School is significant, under Criterion C for architecture, as a reflection of Damascus" Quaker heritage, with its strong emphasis on education, and its a two-room,. two story schoolhouse. was entirely removed.
Locally, the Damascus Grade School is the best surviving example of an early in design, it bears distinct resemblances to earlier Quaker meeting houses and schools in Damascus' Quaker origins and heritage, with their strong 1902 Architecture (architect/carpenter) apparently based his design on existing architecture in this Quaker settlement, Significant Dates Period of Significance Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Significant Person Architect/Builder changes indicated that responsibility for education in Damascus was shifting from the are three bays wide and four deep, and simple cornices with returns, characteristic of how the Quaker community in Damascus continued to influence designs for public buildings See continuation sheet district boundaries, and in 1902 built the Damascus Grade School for its elementary striking, despite one being of frame construction and the other brick.
Both buildings Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) the Damascus area.Similarities to the Damascus Academy (built 1857) are particularly Grade School was abandoned in 1949 and used as a house until sold to the Damascus Area Applicable National Register Criteria into a private home, with a major loss of architectural integrity, as the second storey Damascus was settled in 1806 by Quakers from Virginia and New Jersey.Education in 18l2.A succession of schools followed; the most notable was the Damascus Academy, is a two-room school at the northeast corner of state routes 534 and 165,north of Grade School as the most intact local example of an early two-room school. emphasis on both religion and education.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 89001456, 23 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
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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