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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Medina County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wadsworth Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 101-161 and 102-146 High, 117-129 Broad, 111-273, 102-156 and 246-258 Main, 188 South Lyman, 105 Garfield, and 107-155 and 112-116 College Sts., 110-122 Watrusa Ave., Wadsworth
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100009356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 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
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wadsworth Downtown Historic District in 2009, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wadsworth Downtown Historic District: 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koontz Sandstone Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Koontz Ss Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| General Wadsworth Brick No 4 Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Number 4 Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Number 5 Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Number 5 Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Hammond Brothers Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Keiper Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Keiper Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Silchuk Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1903 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Mark's Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Matthew Chandler House | 4.4 miles | 1978 |
| Sharon Center Public Square Historic District | 5.2 miles | 1980 | |
 | Seville Jail | 7.2 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009356 in Record Group 79. |
| Medina County | All 31 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.