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Perrysburg Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1900 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Perrysburg Historic District, surveyed 1956
Topographic sheet covering Perrysburg Historic District, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Perrysburg Historic District in 2002, burning about 5 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
11 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 October 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Perrysburg Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Lime City PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Lula Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Maumee PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Maumee QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Wood County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 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.

NewspaperPublished
The Perrysburg Journal1853 to 1861

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
Perrysburg Water Maintenance Building0.4 miles1990
Schaller Memorial Building0.4 miles1990
Hood-Simmons House0.5 miles1974
Old Wood County Jail0.5 miles1969
East River Road Historic District II0.6 miles1976
John J. Yeager House0.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001557 in Record Group 79.
Wood CountyAll 29 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.