BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Paulding County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Paulding Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
The listing
- Address. Centered on the Paulding County Courthouse and roughly bounded by Harrison, Water, Caroline and Cherry Streets, Paulding
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100010114 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The ground this property stands on, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Paulding Downtown Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Portland Inc Peninsular Div | Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Paulding Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Paulding Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Maps showing this location
6 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.
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Paulding County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1974 |
 | Paulding County Carnegie Library | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010114 in Record Group 79. |
| Paulding County | All 4 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.