Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Ashtabula Harbor Commercial District is a historic district in the northern section of the city of Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. Comprising a commercial section near the city's Lake Erie waterfront, the district includes buildings constructed largely in the late nineteenth century, at which time Ashtabula was a flourishing port city.”
Wikipedia article Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1975 · category: District · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.
National Register reference number.75001311- 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.
The ground it stands on
16,765 words
The chapter on Ashtabula Township in Baker's Map of Ashtabula Co. Ohio, published 1856 names Ashtabula. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The following compiled group of maps has been published for the benefit of persons wishing to know who owned certain properties in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1856, according to the five-by-five foot wall map drawn and published by the Baker Company.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District between
2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 777 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District between 1872 and
1975: 666 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Fuller, A. Woolman, Baumgardner, L. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District: 4 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ashtabula, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Widespread basement and street flooding in Ashtabula, with several videos of flowing water of six inches or more across roadways. Radar estimated 2.75 to 3.5 inches of rainfall in a two to three hour period, which roughly equates to a 50 year recurrence interval.
Several roads closed due to flowing high water. Vehicles stranded in high water at West Avenue and West 34th Street, West 58th Street and Jefferson Road. Underpass on Main Avenue inundated with 5 to 6 feet of water, stranding a vehicle. Several reports of flooded basements in the area.
An ice jam on the Ashtabula River at Northcoast Marina and Yacht Club broke loose and snapped the docks apart like twigs. The river also flooded bottom land and at least one road. Other rural roads were flooded by melting piles of snow.
Widespread road flooding in Ashtabula and Plymouth areas. Some reports of basement flooding as well. Many of the roads flooded due to creeks coming out of their banks. A few cars stranded in a flooded underpass on Main Avenue in Ashtabula. Radar estimated 4 to 5.5 inches of rainfall in a 1.5 to 3 hour period. Two rain gauge reports in Plymouth reported nearly 6 inches of rainfall over a three hour period.
Trees and large limbs were downed. Hard hit was the west side of Conneaut where several roads were closed from downed trees. Utility poles were also downed along with some signs and awnings.
A 86 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Ashtabula Light House. Several dozen trees were downed in the City of Ashtabula. At least two homes were damaged by fallen trees. Other trees were downed to the west of Ashtabula in Saybrook Township.
Trained spotters estimated 60 mph winds in Ashtabula. A few trees were downed in an around the City of Ashtabula. One of the trees landed on a house trailer and caused some structural damage.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
3,338 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
ping of staves, timber and lumber, and later the exporting of commercial district was built up, and it continued to flourish and FEB2 8 1975 1870-1910 Conservation Commerce Architecture Science Aboriginal losophy Transportation Engineering SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Theater REGISTER Landscape Communications Military Industry Invention Prehistoric Music Agriculture attract additional building until shortly after the turn of the century. Education itarian Social/Human- This commer- RECEIVED Religion/Phi Literature Ashtabula Harbour was a separate village before it was land surveying party in 1796.
The mouth of the Ashtabula River Sculpture of the county was soon concentrated here, primarily in the ship- This street conveys much of the feeling and association of a former bustling commercial town on an important harbor. eering improvements were not made until 1826-1827. The commerce incorporated into the city of Ashtabula in the mid-1870s.The was the site of the first survey for a projected harbor of any port on the Great Lakes.Benjamin Latrobe drew the plans for city of Ashtabula. lines of docks, great piles of ore, the coal shutes, and the many vessels are tokens of another era which has dawned upon this cial district is about two miles north of the main center of the it leads to the drawbridge at the mouth of the river.
Political Between the end of the Civil War and that date much of this AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art The first actual engin- place.Bygone scenes will soon be forgotten in the rush of commerce pork, beef, flour, potash, wines and whiskey. the project which was never carried out. and in the increase of trade. These comments were written in harbor was actually used as early as 180l and probably by the 1878, 135-137.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001311, 27 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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