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William McKinley Tomb

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1907 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Stark County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1907, Renaissance Revival architecture, by Harold Van Buren Magonigle · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. McKinley, William, Tomb - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 7th St., NW., Canton
  • When was it listed? November 1970
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1907
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • Architect. Harold Van Buren Magonigle
  • National Register reference number. 70000516 - 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

1901 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering William McKinley Tomb, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering William McKinley Tomb, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of William McKinley Tomb in 2005, burning about 30 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 April 2005Debris and open burning30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of William McKinley Tomb: 9 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canton Ohio Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Canton, OhioIronProducer
Sme QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stark County MinesClayProducer
American Sand & Gravel Plant #2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beldon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beldon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Columbus Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Columbus Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Diano Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Stark County

Newspapers printed here

6 papers

6 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.

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Henry H. Timken Estate Barn0.5 miles1978
John H. Lehman High School0.7 miles2017
St. John's Catholic Church0.8 miles1975
Trinity Lutheran Church0.9 miles1985
Timken Vocational High School0.9 miles2018
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church Complex0.9 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000516 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stark CountyAll 95 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.