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Photograph of Alliance Clay Product Company
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Alliance Clay Product Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Mahoning 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. 1500 S. Mahoning Ave., Alliance
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 78002130 - 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

1909 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Alliance Clay Product Company, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Alliance Clay Product Company, surveyed 1909

Fires near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alliance Clay Product Company in 2020, burning about 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15817
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15930

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

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 Alliance Clay Product Company: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Clay, Coal, 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
Alliance QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Alliance QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J & R PitClay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, CoalProducer
Whiteacre Greer PitClay, CoalProducer
Alliance Brick Corp. Pit Number 2ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Alliance Brick Corp. Pit Number 2ClayPast Producer
Homeworth Road Pit Number 3ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Homeworth Road Pit Number 3ClayPast Producer
Whitacre Shale PlantClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Maps showing this location

9 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

2 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
Frank Sebring House3.3 miles1989
Damascus Grade School6.7 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mahoning CountyAll 74 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.