Marion Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Center, Vine, Pleasant, and Orchard Sts., Marion
When was it listed? March 2022
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100007469 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Marion Downtown Historic District in 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Marion Downtown Historic District: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fleming Const. Co Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J.M. Hamilton and Sons Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
J.M. Hamilton and Sons Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Marion Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Marion Plant Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ri Alto Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 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 Marion Daily Mirror	1892 to 1912

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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.

1903 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marion West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Marion County Telephone Company Building	under 500 feet	2007
Old US Post Office	0.1 miles	1990
Hotel Harding	0.2 miles	1980
Warren G. Harding House	0.4 miles	1966
Palace Theater	0.4 miles	1976
George W. King Mansion-Etowah	0.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007469 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 18 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.