BlockFrom the record
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Highland County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hillsboro Historic Business District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1917.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Beech, Walnut, East and West Sts., Hillsboro
- When was it listed? April 1984
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 84003727 - 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
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro Historic Business District between 2006 and 2007, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hillsboro Historic Business District: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Vienna Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| New Vienna Mill & Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Own Crews Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ruggles Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ruggles Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|
| The News-Herald | 1886 to 1973 |
Maps showing this location
8 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.
- 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Highland County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1978 |
 | Highland Egg and Poultry Company Building | 0.1 miles | 2002 |
 | Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Parish House | 0.2 miles | 1988 |
| East Main Street Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1982 | |
 | Bell Mansion | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Bell's First Home | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84003727 in Record Group 79. |
| Highland County | All 25 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.