BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Defiance County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Defiance Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Fort, Clinton, Arabella, and Wayne Sts., Defiance
- When was it listed? March 2020
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100005021 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1907 to 1986The 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.
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 Defiance Downtown Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Briquetting/ Defiance, Ohio | Iron | Unknown |
Maps showing this location
6 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.
- 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Defiance East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Defiance 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Defiance Public Library | 0.3 miles | 1985 |
| Holgate Avenue Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1990 | |
 | Fort Defiance Park | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Judge Alexander Latty House | 0.6 miles | 1991 |
 | Charles Speaker House | 0.6 miles | 1997 |
 | East Side Fire Station | 0.7 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005021 in Record Group 79. |
| Defiance County | All 10 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.