BlockFrom the record
One of 95 National Register listings published here for Stark County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hercules Motors Corporation Industrial Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. 101 11th St. SE, Canton
- When was it listed? June 2005
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 05000575 - 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
1901 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 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 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hercules Motors Corporation Industrial Complex between 2005 and 2019, burning about 36 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 | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15136 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hercules Motors Corporation Industrial Complex: 8 past producers, 7 producers, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canton Ohio Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer | ||
| Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Canton, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Sme Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Motts and Dehoff Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Stark County Mines | Clay | Producer | ||
| Suzie Strip Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Suzie Strip Mine Clay and Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| American Sand & Gravel Plant #2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Beldon Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Beldon Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
6 papers6 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 |
|---|---|
| The Stark County Democrat | 1833 to 1912 |
| Der Vaterlandsfreund Und Geist Der Zeit | 1837 to 1845 |
| Ohio Staats-Bote | 1846 to 1851 |
| Der Vaterlandsfreund | 1845 to 1846 |
| Der Vaterlandsfreund Und Westliche Beobachter | 1836 to 1837 |
| Der Vaterlandsfreund | 1833 to 1836 |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1901 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Canton West quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Canton West quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Canton West 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frances Apartment Building | 0.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Schuffenecker, August Building | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Eagles' Temple | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Barber-Whitticar House | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Harry E. Fife House | 0.3 miles | 1987 |
| Saxton House | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000575 in Record Group 79. |
| Stark County | All 95 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.