Realty Building

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

An account from the chapter on Youngstown city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The chapter on Youngstown City in Twentieth Century History of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names Youngstown. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Realty Building between 2010 and 2020, burning about 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 304 specimens collected within 10 miles of Realty Building between 1853 and 1974: 220 Animalia, 78 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, B Withers, B. West and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	W. H. Olney	Poland
	Eurytoma pater Girault, 1920	1915	W. Phillips	Youngstown
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1853	not recorded	Poland, Yellow Creek
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1853	C. Kirtland	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 304 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Realty Building: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngstown, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning County

2 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.

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1906 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
• 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 543 words, 7 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80003150, 7 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Stambaugh Building	under 500 feet	1980
	Ohio One-Ohio Edison	under 500 feet	1986
	Mahoning National Bank Building	under 500 feet	1980
	Central Tower Building	under 500 feet	1980
	First National Bank Building	under 500 feet	1980
	Mahoning County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1974