BlockFrom the record
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Licking County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Newark Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Church St., Second St., Fifth St., and Canal St., Newark
- When was it listed? January 2002
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 01001482 - 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
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Newark Downtown Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 7 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 | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 842 |
| 15 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6865 |
| 10 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15953 |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Newark Downtown Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Creek Crushed Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Dry Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dry Creek Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jones Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Newark No. 214 Dredge & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Newark Leader | 1917 to 1946 |
Maps showing this location
5 surveysUnited 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.
- 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Home Building Association Bank | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | Licking County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | Courthouse Center | 0.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Shield's Block | 0.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Pennsylvania Railway Station | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Newark High School | 0.3 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01001482 in Record Group 79. |
| Licking County | All 60 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.