BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mentor Avenue District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. Wood St. and Mentor Ave. from Liberty to Washington St., Painesville
- When was it listed? August 1978
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 78002093 - 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mentor Avenue District in 2002, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mentor Avenue District: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morton Salt Co | Halite | Past Producer | Halite | |
| Morton Salt Fairport Mine | Salt | Producer | ||
| Republic Steel Lime Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Mentor Sand and Supply Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Painesville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sidley's Painesville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
2 papers2 papers 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 |
|---|---|
| Painesville Journal | 1871 to 1872 |
| Northern Ohio Journal | 1872 to 1896 |
Maps showing this location
8 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 Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Painesville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Smead House | under 500 feet | 1974 |
 | Mathews House | 0.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Painesville City Hall | 0.3 miles | 1972 |
| Lake County National Bank Building | 0.3 miles | 2020 | |
 | Administration Building, Lake Erie College | 0.3 miles | 1973 |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church of Painesville, The | 0.4 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002093 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 81 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.