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Photograph of Valley Railway Historic District
Photograph by Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Valley Railway Historic District

Built in 1871. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 1985 · category: District · built in 1871.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Valley Railway Historic District between 1993 and 2012, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
16 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkQUICK
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
22 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkLEDGES
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
2 April 2001Natural2.0 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkPINEHOLLOW
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Every fire recorded in Cuyahoga County

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
Jonas Coonrad House3.0 miles1979
Russ and Holland Snow Houses3.2 miles1982
Russ and Holland Snow Houses3.3 miles1982
Jaite Mill Historic District3.4 miles1979
Richard Vaughn Farm4.4 miles1993
William Burt House5.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001123 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 426 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.