BlockFrom the record
One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hamilton Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- Address. 135-245 & 250-358 High, 9-21 N. 3rd, 6-222 S. 2nd, 2-306 & 11-301 S. 3rd, 105-309 & 224-234 Court & 311-316 Ludlow Sts., Hamilton
- When was it listed? July 2016
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 16000458 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton Downtown Historic District: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 6 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/ Hamilton, Ohio | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Aggregate Services Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| American Materials/ Hamilton, Ohio | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Fairfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hamilton Plant #710 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hilltop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| New Miami Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| New Miami Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper 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 Butler County Press | 1900 to 1946 |
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.
- 1915 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1917 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dixon-Globe Opera House-Robinson-Schwenn Building | under 500 feet | 2000 |
| High Street Commercial Block (Boundary Increase) | under 500 feet | 2014 | |
 | Butler County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1981 |
 | High Street Commercial Block | under 500 feet | 2004 |
 | Hamilton Historic Civic Center | 0.2 miles | 1995 |
 | St. Stephen Church and Rectory | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000458 in Record Group 79. |
| Butler County | All 82 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.