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Marion Catholic School

Built in 1879 (Moderne architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1879, Moderne architecture.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 1001 & 1047 Mount Vernon Ave. & 590 Forest Lawn Dr., Marion
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. building
When was it built? 1879
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 100001587 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Marion Catholic School in 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
4 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marion Catholic School: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J.M. Hamilton and Sons Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fleming Const. Co Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J.M. Hamilton and Sons Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Marion Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Ri Alto Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper 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 Marion Daily Mirror	1892 to 1912

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.

1903 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marion East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

Catholic Church & School
Church
Named in 1892

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
Marion Women's Club Home	0.8 miles	2019
Marion Cemetery Receiving Vault	0.9 miles	1995
George W. King Mansion-Etowah	1.0 miles	1995
Harding Tomb	1.0 miles	1976
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Chapel	1.0 miles	1995
Warren G. Harding House	1.1 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 18 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.