Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1999. 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 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.99000331- 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.
Fires near this property
252 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Marting Hotel between
1992 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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
Debris and open burning
112
Arson/incendiarism
54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
42
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Recreation and ceremony
8
Other causes
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
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 433 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Marting Hotel between 1888 and
1972: 311 Animalia, 67 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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
1 working within 5 miles of Marting Hotel: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Ironton, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Several small streams, including Symmes Creek flooded on the 4th into the 5th. The Ohio River caused minor flooding and road closures to continue into the 7th.
On South Third Street, a vacant building saw an entire wall of bricks blown out from its upper floor. The bricks toppled to the sidewalk below. One tree on Sixth Street fell onto a parked car. Trash cans, potted plants, lawn furniture and other debris were blown around town.
Fallen trees damaged the roofs of two businesses and one house. Cars were also damaged. Urban runoff from the downpour flooded the police station when a sump pump failed.
Trees were uprooted. One hard hit region was Kitts Hill area, where Crow Ridge and Homeless Roads had power lines blown down. One car was reported crushed by a fallen tree.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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
11,774 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 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
Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) U B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. IX 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 and 1917 - 1948 - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years.
Richards, McCarty & Bulford Columbus, Ohio 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 99000331, 195 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.
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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