Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
From the record
“The Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge, near Chesterhill, Ohio and also known as Williams Covered Bridge, was built in 1872. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Barkhurst Mill 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.99000097- 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
1910 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge
between 2014 and 2019, burning about 24 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 burning
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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 324 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge between 1887 and 1973: 300 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chesterhill, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
State Road 377 near the town of Plantsville was closed in both directions due to flooding. Other county roads that were temporarily closed due to flooding included County Road 56 near Malta and County Road 39 in Westland.
In the community of Chesterhill, a tree was blown down along Buckeye Ridge Road. In addition, several trees were blown down along Route 266 in Stockport.
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 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 high artistic values, or represents a significant 1872 to 1948 and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield Significant Dates information important in prehistory or history.
(Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person -A owned by a religious institution or used for - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. John Shrake - Builder OG less than 50 years of age or achieved significance E.W. Kirby - Stonemason 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 99000097, 20 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.
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.
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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