BlockBefore
Photograph of Glendale Cemetery
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glendale Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 180 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 150 Glendale Ave., Akron
  • When was it listed? September 2001
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 01001063 - 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

1903 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet covering Glendale Cemetery, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Glendale Cemetery, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glendale Cemetery in 2014, burning under an acre 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
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
27 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkCANYON TRAIL

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Glendale Cemetery: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Flesher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herbruck Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herbruck Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.P. Pollo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J.P. Pollo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lerkis Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverside PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Robert E. Alden Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Summit County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 papers 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.

NewspaperPublished
Akron Daily Democrat1892 to 1902
Summit County Labor News1923 to 1976

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
Akron Rural Cemetery Buildings0.2 miles1980
Lewis Miller House0.3 miles1976
Glendale Steps0.3 miles2023
Grace Reformed Church0.3 miles1984
Akron Jewish Center0.4 miles1986
Akron Y.M.C.A. Building0.4 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001063 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit CountyAll 180 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.