BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Caldwell Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Spruce, West, Plum, Bridge, and East Sts., Caldwell
- When was it listed? November 2020
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100005824 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 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
15 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Caldwell Downtown Historic District between 2012 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15266 |
| 8 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8425 |
| 28 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4965 |
| 18 April 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4426 |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14385 |
| 25 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7531 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14705 |
| 17 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13245 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Caldwell Downtown Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ava Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Merrill Brothers Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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 Journal | 1934 to 1961 |
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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office | under 500 feet | 2004 |
 | Samuel Caldwell House | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
| SHENANDOAH Crash Sites | 3.8 miles | 1989 | |
 | St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception | 5.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Young-Shaw House | 5.9 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005824 in Record Group 79. |
| Noble 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.
- 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.