Sidney Courthouse Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by North and South Sts., West and Miami Aves., Sidney
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. district
National Register reference number. 80003232 - 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.

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 Sidney Courthouse Square Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Rock Run Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rock Run Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Spring Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Morelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plant Number 2 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Jefferon Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sidney Sand & Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Staley Farm Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1913 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
People's Federal Savings and Loan Association	under 500 feet	1972
Sidney Walnut Avenue Historic District	0.3 miles	1983
Whitby Mansion	0.4 miles	1976
Sidney Waterworks And Electric Light Building	0.4 miles	1978
Fulton Farm	0.7 miles	1979
Port Jefferson School	4.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003232 in Record Group 79.
Shelby County	All 20 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.
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.