BlockFrom the record
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Medina County · listed in 1975 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Medina Public Square Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. Public Sq. and surrounding properties, Medina
- When was it listed? June 1975
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 75001483 - 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
1904 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Medina Public Square Historic District: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burbank Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Medina Sentinel | 1888 to 1961 |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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 Medina quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Medina County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1970 |
 | Judge Albert Munson House | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Medina Masonic Temple and Medina Theater | 0.1 miles | 2002 |
| United States Post Office | 0.1 miles | 2019 | |
 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | H. G. Blake House | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75001483 in Record Group 79. |
| Medina County | All 31 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.