BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Bellefontaine Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Elm St., Sandusky Ave., Madriver St., and Auburn Ave., Bellefontaine
- When was it listed? April 2020
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100005213 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1913 to 1992The 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
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Bellefontaine Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Johnson's Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Logan Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Logan Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ropp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 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 Bellefontaine Republican | 1855 to 1905 |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1913 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First Concrete Street In U.S. | under 500 feet | 1974 |
 | Logan County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | Schine's Holland Theatre | under 500 feet | 2001 |
 | William Lawrence House | 0.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Martin Marmon House | 5.4 miles | 1986 |
 | Piatt, Abram S., House and Piatt, Donn S., House | 7.6 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005213 in Record Group 79. |
| Logan County | All 8 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.