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Photograph of Hiram Bell Farmstead
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hiram Bell Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Columbiana County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Bell, Hiram, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 43628 OH 517, Columbiana
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. district
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 99001496 - 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

1907 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hiram Bell Farmstead, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Hiram Bell Farmstead, surveyed 1907

Fires near this property

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hiram Bell Farmstead between 2004 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning13
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 June 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5006
29 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1741
9 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources866
14 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hiram Bell Farmstead: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Huffman Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Huffman Clay PitClayPast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coppock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Coppock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leetonia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Nicholas Eckis House2.1 miles1980
Church Hill Road Covered Bridge3.3 miles1975
Jones-Bowman House4.6 miles1976
Hanna-Kenty House5.1 miles2001
Lisbon Historic District5.7 miles1979
Charles Nelson Schmick House6.2 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbiana CountyAll 45 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.