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Photograph of South Main Street District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Main Street District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. S. Main St., Middletown
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 78002015 - 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of South Main Street District: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants, 1 unknown. 5 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
Armco Inc/ Middletown, OhioIronUnknown
Gentry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mecco Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecco, Incorporated PltSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moorman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Moorman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moorman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Maps showing this location

5 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
Main Street Commercial Historic District0.2 miles2014
Dan F. Snider Ford Dealership Building0.4 miles2014
Central Avenue Historic District0.4 miles2014
Hotel Manchester0.4 miles2014
Oakland Residential Historic District0.5 miles2023
John B. Tytus House0.7 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002015 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler CountyAll 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.