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Photograph of Aurora Center Historic District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Aurora Center Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Aurora Center Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Aurora Center Historic District, surveyed 1906

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Aurora Center Historic District: 9 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cannon Sand and Rock, Inc. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Cannon Sand and Rock, Inc. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Silica, Incorporated QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Twinsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Auburn Aggregates Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Haueter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Leone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucky PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucky Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage 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.

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
Aurora Train Station0.8 miles1986
C. R. Howard House0.8 miles1974
Zeno Kent House2.3 miles1973
Mantua Center School5.3 miles2013
Mantua Center District5.3 miles2023
Crafts William H., House6.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Portage CountyAll 49 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.