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Square 13 Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Fairfield County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Square 13 Historic District, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet covering Square 13 Historic District, surveyed 1907

Fires near this property

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Square 13 Historic District between 2012 and 2020, burning about 12 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15338
5 July 2020Fireworks1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15801
5 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources742
9 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15458
19 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources524
6 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15936
10 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15998

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Square 13 Historic District: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blazer Plant A-1 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brewer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Febus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Igel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stump Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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

8 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
William Medill House0.1 miles1978
Lancaster Historic District0.2 miles1983
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church0.2 miles1979
Lancaster West Main Street Historic District0.2 miles1979
John Sherman Birthplace0.3 miles1966
Tallmadge-Mithoff House0.9 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72001008 in Record Group 79.
Fairfield CountyAll 38 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.