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One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bedford Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Willis St., Franklin St., Broadway Ave., and columbus Rd., Bedford
- When was it listed? July 2004
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 04000712 - 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 1994The 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.
Fires near this property
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bedford Historic District between 1993 and 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | VANACHEK |
| 28 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.3 acres | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | STONE |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bedford Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Zirconium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydraulic Shale Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Rockside Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Zircoa Refractories/ Solon, Ohio | Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Leone Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Leone Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Terra Visa Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Terra Visa Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
8 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.
- 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hezekiah Dunham House | under 500 feet | 1975 |
| Bedford Township Hall | under 500 feet | 1975 | |
 | Holsey Gates House | under 500 feet | 1975 |
 | Cleveland And Pittsburgh Railroad Bridge | 0.4 miles | 1975 |
| Villa San Bernardo Historic District | 0.9 miles | 2015 | |
 | Alonzo Drake House | 2.3 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04000712 in Record Group 79. |
| Cuyahoga County | All 426 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.