Kenton Courthouse Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Main, Detroit, Market, Columbus and Franklin Sts., Kenton
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. district
National Register reference number. 84003722 - 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.

Fires near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kenton Courthouse Square Historic District in 2002, burning about 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
10 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 November 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kenton Courthouse Square Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hardin Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1915 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Kenton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Hardin County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1979
Kenton Public Library	under 500 feet	1983
North Main-North Detroit Street Historic District	0.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003722 in Record Group 79.
Hardin County	All 6 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.