John Isham Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 94 National Register listings published here for Lucas County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Isham, John, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8460 S. River Rd., Waterville
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. district
National Register reference number. 92001159 - 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of John Isham Farmstead between 2002 and 2017, 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 June 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 June 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 March 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7405
24 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John Isham Farmstead: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Waterville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Waterville Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Toledo House of Correction Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Toledo House of Correction Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1938 USGS Tontogany quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Tontogany quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Isham House	0.4 miles	1982
Interurban Bridge	0.9 miles	1972
Waterville Commercial District	1.6 miles	1976
Gillett-Shoemaker-Welsh House	1.7 miles	1975
Morehouse-Downes House	1.7 miles	1975
Columbian House	1.7 miles	1969

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001159 in Record Group 79.
Lucas County	All 94 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.
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.