BlockFrom the record
One of 74 National Register listings published here for Mahoning County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mill Creek Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
The listing
- Address. Mahoning Ave. to Boardman-Canfield Rd., Mill Creek, 960 Bears Den Rd., Youngstown
- When was it listed? March 2005
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 05000178 - 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
1906 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 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
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mill Creek Park Historic District between 2010 and 2019, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15192 |
| 19 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15195 |
| 10 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15291 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mill Creek Park Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakwood Billets/ Youngstown, Ohio | Aluminum | Producer | ||
| Standard Slag/ Struthers, Ohio | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Us Steel/ Youngstown, Ohio | Iron | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
2 papers2 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Youngstownské Slovenské Noviny = Youngstown Slovak News | 1910 to 1940 |
| Amerikai Magyar Hirlap = American Magyar Journal | 1911 to 1942 |
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.
- 1906 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Youngstown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lanterman Mill | 0.3 miles | 1974 |
 | Idora Park | 0.6 miles | 1993 |
 | Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge | 0.7 miles | 1976 |
| Forest Glen Estates Historic District | 1.1 miles | 1998 | |
| Newport Village Allotment Historic District | 1.3 miles | 2006 | |
 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park | 1.7 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000178 in Record Group 79. |
| Mahoning County | All 74 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.