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Fuller House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 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 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 203 N. Main St., Utica, 43080
  • When was it listed? 1991-03-22
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91000304 - 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

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fuller House between 2019 and 2019, burning about 14 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 April 2019Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15138
1 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15285

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fuller House between 1888 and 1975: 1,140 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Mills, W. C.Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Parker, J. B.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Williamson, E. G.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Parker, J. P.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melanerpes erythrocephalus, not of this specimenMelanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
Piranga Vieillot, 18081898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 1,151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Van Wey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Licking County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Tornado (F2)Utica$300,000A tornado knocked down numerous trees, destroyed 2 barns, and caused significant damage to 4 homes.
September 1994Thunderstorm WindUtica$50,000Dozens of trees were downed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindUtica$30,000Structural damage occurred to an Ice Cream Factory due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindUtica$15,000Metal roofs were partially removed from several unoccupied structures. Also numerous trees were downed in the vicinity of School Street and Central Avenue, as well as near the intersection of Central Avenue and Maple Avenue.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindUtica$10,000A roof was torn off of a barn and there was damage to some playground equipment. A tree was also uprooted.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000Trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000Trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000Trees and large limbs downed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindUtica$4,000Trees were blown down in the northern part of the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindUtica$3,000Multiple trees were downed.
March 2020Flash FloodUtica$3,000A water rescue occurred on North High Street.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindUtica$3,000Several trees were reported down near Utica due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindUtica$3,000Numerous trees were downed across the northern part of the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindUtica$2,000Two trees were downed.
March 2020Flash FloodUtica$2,000A water rescue occurred on Blacksnake Road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindUtica$1,000Several large limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2020FloodUtica-State Route 13 was closed due to high water.
August 2016Heavy RainUtica-Minor flooding was reported at the intersection of Ohio Route 13 and U.S. 62.
March 2012HailUtica-no account filed
April 2006HailUtica-no account filed
April 2001HailUtica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking County

Map coverage status

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

2,126 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

of very few buildings constructed during the 1820s and still remaining in the Utica area, Cultural Affiliation between those two cities. history as prominent in his profession in the early days.of the community and highly Main Street was also known as the Newark-Mt.Vernon Road and was the principal early road thereafter.The property was sold from his estate to Valentine Alsdorf in 1857.Dr. which retains the characteristics of the Federal style.

The Fuller House is eligible for the National Register under Criterion C.It was built street--Main Street.Located midway between Newark and Mt.Vernon county streets), Dr.Nathaniel Fuller purchased the property in 1824 and built the house shortly The economy of the community was based on the rich agricultural land surrounding it.The population was 700 in 1880 and is only 1700 today.Most of the early residents were of Ohio Railroad) was completed it was 116 miles in length and provided a direct route to Inationally X locally statewide agricultural groups and served as the Director of the Licking County Agricultural Society Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: 9.

The whole case file for this property - 2,126 words, 20 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 91000304, 20 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Upland Farm4.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000304 in Record Group 79.
Licking CountyAll 52 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.