Fostoria Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by North St., South St. and the alleys E and W of Main St., Fostoria
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. district
National Register reference number. 01001065 - 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fostoria Downtown Historic District in 2002, 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/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fostoria Downtown Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Union Carbide/ Fostoria, Ohio	REE	Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1901 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Ambrose Cory House	0.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001065 in Record Group 79.
Seneca County	All 46 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.