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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Champaign County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Scioto Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
The listing
- Address. Scioto St. from Locust to E. Lawn Ave., Urbana
- When was it listed? February 1984
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 84002908 - 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
1914 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Scioto Street Historic District in 2002, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 June 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Scioto Street Historic District: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultra-Met/ Urbana, Ohio | Tungsten | Unknown | ||
| Champlaign Co. Highway Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jacobs Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Miller Excavating Urbana Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moore's Excavating Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ralph Moore Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Urbana # 215 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Urbana Number 215 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Urbana Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper 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 |
|---|---|
| Urbana Union | 1862 to 1872 |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1914 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Urbana East quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Urbana Monument Square Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1984 |
 | Dr. Adam Mosgrove House | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Richards-Sewall House | 0.6 miles | 1995 |
 | John Q. A. Ward House | 0.7 miles | 1974 |
 | Urbana College Historic Buildings | 1.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Nutwood Place | 1.4 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84002908 in Record Group 79. |
| Champaign County | All 33 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.