Photograph of Washington Cemetery — Photograph by Aesopposea, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Washington Cemetery Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1741 Washington Ave., Washington Court House
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. district
National Register reference number. 06000765 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Washington Cemetery Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
	Sugar Creek Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Sugar Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1906 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Washington Court House quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Judy Chapel	0.3 miles	1998
Morris Sharp House	1.0 miles	1974
Barney Kelley House	1.0 miles	1979
Edward Smith Jr. Farm	1.2 miles	1987
Jacob Light House	1.2 miles	1989
Washington Court House Commercial Historic District	1.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000765 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette County	All 15 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.
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.