Harding-Jones Paper Company District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Both sides of S. Main St. at jct. with railroad tracks, Excello
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. district
National Register reference number. 75001330 - 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Harding-Jones Paper Company District: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Armco Inc/ Middletown, Ohio	Iron	Unknown
Mecco Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mecco, Incorporated Plt	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Middletown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Middletown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moorman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1904 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Christian Ehresman Farm	1.8 miles	1984
John Augspurger Farm No. 1	1.9 miles	1984
Hughes Manor	2.0 miles	1994
John Augspurger Farm No. 2	2.3 miles	1984
Henry P. Deuscher House	2.3 miles	1984
Oakland Residential Historic District	2.4 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001330 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler County	All 82 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.