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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ashtabula County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ashtabula Main Avenue Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Park Pl., Collins Blvd., West 48th St., Center St., and Park Ave., Ashtabula
- When was it listed? August 2020
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100005467 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ashtabula Main Avenue Historic District in 2020, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15697 |
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 Ashtabula Main Avenue Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Pigment. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtabula #1 & #2 Plants Ti | Titanium, Pigment | Plant | 1967 | |
| Ashtabula Plant Ti | Titanium, Metal | Plant | 1968 | |
| Therm-X Co | Aluminum | Unknown | ||
| Union Carbide | Iron | Producer | ||
| Dreslinski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dreslinski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pinney Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pinney Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
3 papers3 papers 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 |
|---|---|
| Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph | 1853 to 1873 |
| Ashtabula Telegraph | 1874 to 1880 |
| Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph | 1880 to 1886 |
Maps showing this location
5 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.
- 1905 USGS Ashtabula quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ashtabula South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Ashtabula quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtabula Post Office and Federal Building | under 500 feet | 2019 | |
 | Hotel Ashtabula | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
| Castle Block | 0.2 miles | 2020 | |
 | Francis E. Harmon House | 0.7 miles | 1975 |
 | Blakeslee Log Cabin | 1.6 miles | 1998 |
 | Mother of Sorrows Church | 2.3 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005467 in Record Group 79. |
| Ashtabula County | All 38 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.