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Photograph of Columbus Near East Side District
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Columbus Near East Side Historic District-Parsons Avenue (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Columbus Near East Side Historic District-Parsons Avenue (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet covering Columbus Near East Side Historic District-Parsons Avenue (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1925

Fires near this property

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Columbus Near East Side Historic District-Parsons Avenue (Boundary Increase) in 2011, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Columbus Near East Side Historic District-Parsons Avenue (Boundary Increase): 2 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
(Facility) Asarco Columbus SmelterZinc, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Columbus 210 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Columbus Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Columbus No. 210 Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Newspapers printed here

10 papers

10 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.

NewspaperPublished
Columbus Standard1898 to 1901
The Catholic Times1951 to Current
The Free American1887 to 18??
Daily Ohio Statesman1855 to 1870
Der Westbote1843 to 1871
Der Westbote1872 to 1918
Wochenblatt Des Westboten1871 to 1872
Eastern Review1958 to 1964
West Side News1946 to 1960
West Side News and Hilltop Record1960 to 1964

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
W. H. Jones Mansion0.1 miles1978
Central Assurance Company0.1 miles1986
East Broad Street Commercial Building0.1 miles1986
Frederick Prentiss House0.1 miles1986
House at 753 East Broad Street0.1 miles1986
Joseph-Cherrington House0.2 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004287 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 343 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.