Millersburg Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Holmes County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jackson, Clay, and Washington Sts., Millersburg
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. district
Also known as. Millersburg MRA
National Register reference number. 84003743 - 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

1915 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Millersburg Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Millersburg Historic District, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Millersburg Historic District between 2005 and 2019, burning about 10 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	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
18 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4189
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4087
25 November 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2605
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 October 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15322

Every fire recorded in Holmes 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 Millersburg Historic District: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clark Clay Company	Clay	Past Producer
Clark Clay Company Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Newspapers printed here

3 papers

3 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.

Newspaper	Published
Holmes County Republican	1856 to 1865
Holmes County Republican	1870 to 1895
Holmes County Farmer	1857 to 1926

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.

1915 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000

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
Pomerene House	0.6 miles	1980
Peter Wise House	1.7 miles	1980
Boyd School	2.4 miles	1980
Brightman House	6.2 miles	1974
Disciple-Christian Church	6.3 miles	1984
Holmes County Courthouse And Jail	6.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003743 in Record Group 79.
Holmes County	All 16 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.