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South Brooklyn Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Roughly along Pearl and Broadview Rds., Cleveland
  • When was it listed? February 2005
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 05000092 - 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 South Brooklyn Commercial District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering South Brooklyn Commercial District, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of South Brooklyn Commercial District in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
18 March 2018Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkHILLSIDE ROAD

Every fire recorded in Cuyahoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of South Brooklyn Commercial District: 10 unknowns, 8 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, 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
(Facility) Hanna Nickel Smelter/ Cleveland, OhNickelPlant
Brush Wellman/ Cleveland, OhioBerylliumProducer
Cleveland MineHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cleveland MineSaltProducer
Cuyahoga Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Dock Number 1, Whiskey Island MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Great Lakes-St Lawrence/ ClevelandFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Metallurgical Inc/ Cleveland, OhioIron, AluminumUnknown
N. L. IndustriesLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

16 papers

16 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.

Maps showing this location

8 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
Clayton Townes House0.6 miles1987
Brooklyn Centre Historic District0.6 miles1999
Brooklyn Bank Building0.6 miles1984
Archwood Avenue Historic District0.7 miles1987
Archwood Congregational Church0.7 miles1994
Malio House0.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000092 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 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.