BlockFrom the record
One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Birdtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Magee Rd., Plover Rd., Halstead Rd., and Madison Ave., Lakewood
- When was it listed? June 2007
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 07000634 - 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
1902 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Birdtown Historic District: 10 unknowns, 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Hanna Nickel Smelter/ Cleveland, Oh | Nickel | Plant | ||
| Brush Wellman/ Cleveland, Ohio | Beryllium | Producer | ||
| Cleveland Mine | Halite | Past Producer | Halite | |
| Cleveland Mine | Salt | Producer | ||
| Dock Number 1, Whiskey Island Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Great Lakes-St Lawrence/ Cleveland | Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer | ||
| Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, Ohio | Antimony | Unknown | ||
| Metallurgical Inc/ Cleveland, Ohio | Iron, Aluminum | Unknown | ||
| N. L. Industries | Lead | Unknown | ||
| Ohio Carbon Cleveland Plant | Graphite | Unknown |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1902 USGS Berea quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Berea quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Lakewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Lakewood quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Lakewood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Harvey Hackenberg House | 0.4 miles | 1983 |
 | Reidy Bros. & Flanigan Building | 0.7 miles | 2018 |
 | James Nicholson House | 0.8 miles | 1979 |
 | Variety Store Building and Theatre | 1.0 miles | 1982 |
 | White Chewing Gum Company Building | 1.0 miles | 2000 |
 | Westerly Apartments | 1.2 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000634 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.
- 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.