Miami And Erie Canal, Deep Cut

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 2 mi. S of Spencerville on OH 66, Spencerville
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 66000603 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Miami And Erie Canal, Deep Cut: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Sandkuhl Tiie Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Sandkuhl Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1911 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allen County	All 29 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.