Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.
From the record
“Adams Covered Bridge is a 58-foot (18 m) historic covered bridge in Morgan County, Ohio spanning San Toy Creek near Malta. The bridge was built in 1875 using a "multiple kingpost truss" design.”
Wikipedia article Adams Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.99000093- 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
1911 to 2002
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
John Quigley and William Corner, in the year 1811, came to what is now Union Township and entered the first quarter section of land entered in the township, each having an equal interest. The following winter they built the first cabin, and in the spring Quigley occupied it. Corner, however, did not make the township his home until February of 1816, at which time he settled on Buck Iiun, near Wolf Creek. He was one of the township's most prominent citizens and was largety identified with its development. A few years before his death he removed to Malta, where he died in 1881. He was a native of Cheshire, England, and was two years of age at the time of his father's settlement in Windsor in 1796. Mrs. Quigley was a sister of William Corner. She was a fine type of the pioneer woman, and it is said that she gave the township its name. The following incident in their early life in Union was furnished the author by her brother, William, and is evidence that some of the pioneer women were possessed of as much courage as their husbands.
Daniel Davis, from Washington County, Pa., came to Belmont County, Ohio, in 1S18, and in 1827 to Union Township, Morgan County, where he settled on an unimproved place, moving into a house without door or window, lie was a farmer, and died in 1859. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Carrol, he had six children, of whom two are now living - Carrol, of Union Township, and Joshua, of Malta, He afterwards married Mary Allman, by whom he had eleven children.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Adams Covered Bridge
between 2009 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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 burning
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Natural
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 314 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Adams Covered Bridge between 1887 and 1973: 280 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Malta, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 flash flood.
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.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the Muskingum River at McConnelsville rose above its 11 foot flood stage. The river crested just below 12 feet early on the morning of the 21st, but did not return below flood stage until the morning of the 22nd. Most of the primary roads were flooded in between McConnelsville and Zanesville while the river was above flood stage, as well as a few homes that reside near the river.
The Muskingum River in McConnelsville rose out of its 11 foot flood stage on the evening of February 22nd. Just after midnight on the 23rd, the river crested at 11.59 feet and returned to its banks just before noon that morning. Several roads observed high water spilling from the river, including Route 669 near Malta and down into McConnelsville. Several homes near the river also observed minor flooding.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "X" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) -A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance high artistic values, or represents a significant 1875 to 1948 and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.
- D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield Criteria Considerations (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person (Complete if Criterion Bis marked above) -A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. - B removed from its original location. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 99000093, 19 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.
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.
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.
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