Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 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.
“Jacob's Church is a historic Lutheran church at 213 East Central Avenue in Miamisburg, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article Jacob's Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The chapter on Miami Township in The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names Miamisburg. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Water was let into the canal from the mill-race near the corner of Fift and Wyandot streets, Dayton, Friday evening, September 26, 1828. Most of j leaked through the embankment along the river at the bluffs in Van Bure Township ; and a break was made in the embankment there November 24 Wednesday, December 17, the packet Alpha, with a party of Dayton ladies an gentlemen, made a trip to Hole's Creek. With another Dayton party, she mad her next trip to Miamisburg, Monday, the 22d, and returned to Dayton on Wee -nesday; and made a second trip to Miamisburg on Christmas Day, returnin Friday.
Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.
The Great Miami Turnpike Company, to run from Dayton over the hills Carrollton, and on down the valley through Miamisburg, Franklin and Middlj town to its junction with the Cincinnati Pike at Sharon, was chartered in Marc 1837. Construction was commeneed in the summer of 1838.
Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Miami Township - 25,484 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 382 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jacob's Church between 1835 and 1975: 234 Animalia, 81 Plantae, 59 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum | 1835 | Joseph C. Frank | Germantown |
 | Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. | 1881 | Foerste AF | |
 | Geaster limbatus Fr. | 1883 | A. E. Foeerste | Dayton |
 | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | 1836 | C. W. Short | Dayton |
 | Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt. | 1838 | J. W. Van Cleve | Dayton |
 | Cassia marilandica L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred | Dayton |
 | Cynoglossum officinale L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. Suburbs E. |
 | Iris versicolor L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 2 mi. south |
 | Nuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton | 1839 | Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. Haupt | Dayton |
 | Podophyllum peltatum L. | 1839 | Nagel, J.J.; J.G. Haupt | Dayton. 1 m. SE |
 | Polygala verticillata L. | 1839 | Sanders, Alfred [?] | 1 mile SE of Dayton |
 | Potentilla canadensis L. | 1839 | not recorded | Dayton. 1 mile south. |
All 382 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jacob's Church: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Carter & Webb Incorporated | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hilltop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Number 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Weidle Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| West Carrollton Aggregate No. 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miamisburg, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Hail | Miamisburg | 2 hurt, $10,000 | Two individuals, one child and one adult, were injured by large hail while running for cover. A truck also sustained damage due to the hail. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Miamisburg | $75,000 | A tornado touched down near the Dayton Mall to the east of Miamisburg and was on the ground for just under a mile. The tornado caused minor damage to a strip mall, a carpet business, a restaurant and a municipal bus outlet. A few trees were downed along the track of the tornado as well. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $50,000 | Trees were downed, some on power lines, cars, and structures. A house under construction collapsed in Germantown. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $10,000 | A large tree fell onto a house. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Miamisburg | $7,000 | Numerous homes experienced basement flooding in Miamisburg. Several roads were flooded as well. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Miamisburg | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $5,000 | Numerous large limbs were knocked down. Winds were estimated at 60 to 65 mph. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $5,000 | Trees and large limbs four to six inches in diameter were knocked down in Miami Township. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $3,000 | A few trees were downed along West Central Avenue between Miamisburg and West Carrollton. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $3,000 | Several trees were downed near Manning Road and Bear Creek Road. |
| January 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $3,000 | A few trees were downed in the Miamisburg area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $2,000 | A tree fell onto some power lines in Miami Township. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $2,000 | Several large pieces of siding were stripped from a house. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $2,000 | Several large pieces of siding were stripped from a house. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $2,000 | A large tree was uprooted. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Miamisburg | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Miamisburg | $1,000 | Two feet of moving water was reported over Vanguard Boulevard and Dayton-Cincinnati Pike due to heavy rainfall. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Miamisburg | $1,000 | Roads were reported flooded due to recent heavy rain. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $1,000 | Several large branches were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $250 | Several large tree limbs were downed on Panjab Court. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $100 | A large tree limb was downed on South Main Street. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $100 | A small tree was downed on Cottage Avenue. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Miamisburg | - | High water was reported over roadways. |
| April 2014 | Heavy Rain | Miamisburg | - | Drainage ditches were overflowing and ponding of water was occurring on some roadways due to heavy rainfall. |
| February 2025 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Miamisburg | - | no account filed |
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.
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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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 - 2,263 words, 28 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 90001290, 28 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miamisburg Mound | 1.1 miles | 1970 | |
 | Salem Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church | 2.9 miles | 1990 |
 | Schuter Carpenter Shop and House | 3.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Emmanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church | 4.6 miles | 1990 |
| Kellog, Ethol, House | 4.6 miles | 1976 | |
 | Shuey's Mill | 4.7 miles | 1975 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001290 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Montgomery County | All 117 listed properties in this county. |
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