BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Muskingum County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Zanesville Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 3rd, Market, 7th, and South streets, Zanesville
- When was it listed? February 2024
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100009926 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1910 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 82 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
61 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Zanesville Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15277 |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15278 |
| 28 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15264 |
| 1 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15236 |
| 6 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15772 |
| 2 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12325 |
| 2 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12945 |
| 19 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12326 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Zanesville Historic District: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armco Inc/ Zanesville, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Granite Plant Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Plant Number 3 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Plant Number 4 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Salt Creek Materials Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
8 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.
- 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lind Arcade | under 500 feet | 1982 | |
 | Black-Elliott Block | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Muskingum County Courthouse And Jail | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | US Post Office and Federal Building-Zanesville | under 500 feet | 1988 |
 | Masonic Temple Building | under 500 feet | 1990 |
| Zanesville YMCA | under 500 feet | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009926 in Record Group 79. |
| Muskingum County | All 81 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.