BlockFrom the record
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Meigs Aboriginal-33WO08-33WO445
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
The listing
- Listed as. Fort Meigs Aboriginal--33WO08--33WO445 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1.3 mi. SW of Perrysburg, Perrysburg
- When was it listed? February 1998
- Category. site
- National Register reference number. 98000042 - 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
1900 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fort Meigs Aboriginal-33WO08-33WO445 between 2002 and 2015, burning about 6 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 | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1962 |
| 18 October 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Meigs Aboriginal-33WO08-33WO445: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maumee Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Lime City Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Maumee Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Perrysburg Journal | 1853 to 1861 |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1900 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Meigs | under 500 feet | 1969 |
 | John J. Yeager House | 0.9 miles | 1985 |
 | Old Wood County Jail | 1.0 miles | 1969 |
 | Hood-Simmons House | 1.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Schaller Memorial Building | 1.2 miles | 1990 |
 | Perrysburg Water Maintenance Building | 1.2 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000042 in Record Group 79. |
| Wood County | All 29 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.