BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Mansfield Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- Address. roughly bounded by Fifth St., Diamond St., Second St., and Mulberry St., Mansfield
- When was it listed? July 2019
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100004214 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 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
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Mansfield Historic District between 2002 and 2005, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Downtown Mansfield Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire Steel-Cyclops Div/ Mansfield | Iron | Producer |
Maps showing this location
8 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.
- 1915 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mansfield North quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mansfield Savings Bank | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | Hancock and Dow Building | under 500 feet | 1987 |
 | Richland Trust Building | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building and Madison Theater | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Mechanics Building and Loan Company | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Stewart Towers | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004214 in Record Group 79. |
| Richland County | All 68 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.