BlockFrom the record
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Ashland Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Cottage-Claremont Ave., 3rd, 4th, & Union Sts. & Town Cr., Ashland
- When was it listed? January 2013
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 12001209 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1908 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 86 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
9 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Ashland Historic District between 2019 and 2020, burning about 22 acres 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15259 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15267 |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15258 |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15806 |
| 21 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15789 |
| 9 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15777 |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15889 |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15890 |
Newspapers printed here
3 papers3 papers 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 Ohio Union | 1849 to 1854 |
| The Ashland Union | 1854 to 1868 |
| The States and Union | 1868 to 1872 |
Maps showing this location
7 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.
- 1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ashland County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Myers Block-Home Company Building | 0.2 miles | 1997 |
| Center Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 0.5 miles | 1993 | |
| Center Street Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1976 | |
| Ashland County Children's Home | 0.9 miles | 2019 | |
 | Anderson Schoolhouse | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12001209 in Record Group 79. |
| Ashland 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.