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Photograph of Kingwood Center
Photograph by Mar07 at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kingwood Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 900 Park Ave. West, Mansfield
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 76001523 - 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

1915 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Kingwood Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Kingwood Center, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Kingwood Center between 2002 and 2005, burning under an acre 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
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
4 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 February 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Kingwood Center: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Empire Steel-Cyclops Div/ MansfieldIronProducer
Lexington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lexington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lexington Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Richland County

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
Fraser House0.4 miles1983
John Sherman Memorial Gateway0.4 miles1983
Jacob H. Barr House0.5 miles1983
Rufus A. Kern House0.6 miles1983
Dow House0.6 miles1983
Robert Sandiford House0.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland CountyAll 68 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.