BlockFrom the record
One of 95 National Register listings published here for Stark County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Massillon Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 1st, & 3rd Sts., Tremont & Federal Aves., Massillon
- When was it listed? June 2018
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100002553 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
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
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Massillon Downtown Historic District in 2005, burning about 8 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Massillon Downtown Historic District: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Steel/ Massillon, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Aj Diana Sons Inc Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Allied Corp Plant No 3 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Allied Corp. Plant Number 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Diana Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Massillon Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Northern Ohio Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
- 1901 USGS Massillon quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Massillon quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Massillon quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Massillon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ideal Department Store Building | under 500 feet | 1992 |
 | First National Bank Building | under 500 feet | 1987 |
 | First Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church | 0.3 miles | 2010 |
 | Five Oaks | 0.3 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002553 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.