BlockFrom the record
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Tiffin Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Riverside Dr., Jefferson, S. Washington, E. Market, Madison, and Court Sts., Tiffin
- When was it listed? May 1978
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 78002186 - 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.
Newspapers printed here
3 papers3 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 |
|---|---|
| The Tiffin Tribune | 1848 to 1859 |
| The Tiffin Weekly Tribune | 1859 to 1868 |
| The Tiffin Tribune | 1868 to 1887 |
Maps showing this location
5 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.
- 1906 USGS Tiffin quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Tiffin South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Aigler Alumni Building | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
| Black Student Union Center | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
 | Pfleiderer Center for Religion and the Humanities | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
| Fort Ball-Railroad Historic Disrict | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
| Wagner Brothers Bottling Works | 0.4 miles | 1980 | |
 | Gerhart-Rust Residence | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002186 in Record Group 79. |
| Seneca County | All 46 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.