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Photograph of Zoarville Bridge
Photograph by Elliott, Joe, creator, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Zoarville Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 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 20 National Register listings in Tuscarawas County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Tuscarawas County.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Across the Conotton Cr., E of jct. of OH 212 and OH 800, Zoarville, 44656
  • When was it listed? 1997-03-13
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Fairfield township
  • National Register reference number. 97000199 - 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.

The ground it stands on

2,596 words

This property stands in Fairfield Township. The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers location, formation, streams, minerals, furnace, early settlers.

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 Fairfield Township - 2,596 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

23 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Zoarville Bridge between 2004 and 2020, burning about 69 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15797
2 May 2015Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1105
11 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12906
10 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12905
7 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13148
18 April 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 508 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 508 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zoarville Bridge between 1851 and 1973: 407 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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
Specimen of Juncus tenuis Willd.Juncus tenuis Willd.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1936Heintzelmann, C.E.Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville.
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1851Wolle, J.Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
A photograph of the species Delphinium tricorne, not of this specimenDelphinium tricorne Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum virginianum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum virginianum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 508 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Zoarville Bridge: 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Zoar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corundite PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Edgar Spring PitClay, CoalProducer
Fairfield Mines & MillFire Clay (Refractory)Plant
Fairfield PitClay, CoalProducer
Zoar PitClay, CoalProducer
Zoar PitClay, CoalProducer
Waltz-Kerr MineClayProducer
Weaver PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas 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

4,029 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 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 - 4,029 words, 22 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 97000199, 22 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000199 in Record Group 79.
Tuscarawas CountyAll 20 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.