Nelsonville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Athens County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Canal, Jefferson, Scott, and Madison Sts., Nelsonville
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. district
National Register reference number. 96000672 - 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 2002

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Nelsonville Historic District, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet covering Nelsonville Historic District, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

161 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Nelsonville Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	80
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	TRAIL HEAD 5 FIRE
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	LABOR FIRE
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	PINE FIRE
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HIDEWAY FIRE
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	BOX FIRE
3 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	180
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Nelsonville Historic District: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. 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
Nutter Bros Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Hope Asphalt S&G Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Athens 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.

1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Nelsonville 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
Stuart's Opera House	under 500 feet	1978
Dew House	0.1 miles	1978
Hocking Valley Railway Historic District	4.9 miles	1988
Kidwell Covered Bridge	6.9 miles	1977
Weethee Historic District	7.4 miles	1980
Athens County Infirmary	7.9 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000672 in Record Group 79.
Athens County	All 28 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.