Franklin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Bounded by West 1st, South. Main, and Sixth Sts., and the Great Miami R., Franklin
When was it listed? May 2023
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100008886 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Historic District: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bailey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Embro Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gentry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Moorman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moorman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moorman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Plant 9 Sand & Gravel/Moraine Matl	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weidle Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1908 USGS Miamisburg quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1986 USGS Dayton 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
Old Log Post Office	0.1 miles	1976
Mackinaw Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Charles Butler House	0.4 miles	1982
Henry Decker Farmstead	3.4 miles	2000
Dr. Aaron Wright House	3.6 miles	1979
Daniel L. Deardoff House	3.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008886 in Record Group 79.
Warren County	All 43 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.