Zoar Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Tuscarawas County · listed in 2016 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Fifth St., Zoar Cemetery, Cemetery Rd. - Lake Dr., Tuscarawas R., OH 212, East Second and East Sts., Zoar
When was it listed? October 2016
Category. district
National Register reference number. 16000859 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Zoar Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Zoar Historic District, surveyed 1912

Fires near this property

23 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Zoar Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 71 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15797
12 June 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5025
5 May 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1105
10 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12905
7 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13148
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Zoar Historic District: 10 producers, 4 past producers, 2 plants. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Black Hawk Mine	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Zoar Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Zoar Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Belden Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Corundite Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Edgar Spring Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Fairfield Mines & Mill	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Plant
Fairfield Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Bolivar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sandyville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United 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.

1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Dover quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Dover quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Zoar Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	2013
Zoar Historic District	0.2 miles	1969
Lebol, John, House, Smokehouse and Springhouse	2.0 miles	1982
Fort Laurens Site	2.6 miles	1970
Zoar Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.8 miles	1975
Zoarville Bridge	2.9 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000859 in Record Group 79.
Tuscarawas County	All 26 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.