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Sharon Center Public Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Medina County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. OH 94 and OH 162, Sharon Center
  • When was it listed? October 1980
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 80003157 - 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

1903 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sharon Center Public Square Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Sharon Center Public Square Historic District, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sharon Center Public Square Historic District in 2009, burning under an acre 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
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
29 November 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Medina 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 Sharon Center Public Square Historic District: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Koontz Sandstone CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Koontz Ss PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Piqua QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Copley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Empire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Empire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flesher Plant No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammond Brothers GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sharon Center PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Medina 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

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
Matthew Chandler House0.9 miles1978
St. Mark's Episcopal Church5.1 miles1973
Wadsworth Downtown Historic District5.2 miles2024
Burritt Blakslee House6.6 miles1974
Spring Grove Cemetery6.7 miles2006
William H. Seymour House6.7 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003157 in Record Group 79.
Medina CountyAll 31 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.