McKelvey-Higbee Co. Buildings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Mahoning County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. McKelvey--Higbee Co. Buildings - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 210--226 Federal Plaza W and 18--26 N. Hazel St., Youngstown
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Downtown Youngstown MRA
National Register reference number. 86001930 - 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

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering McKelvey-Higbee Co. Buildings, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering McKelvey-Higbee Co. Buildings, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of McKelvey-Higbee Co. Buildings between 2010 and 2020, burning about 6 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	8
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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15243
10 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15244
21 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15822
15 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15216
14 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15215
6 May 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15192
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15644
18 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15172

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McKelvey-Higbee Co. Buildings: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Oakwood Billets/ Youngstown, Ohio	Aluminum	Producer
Standard Slag/ Struthers, Ohio	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Us Steel/ Youngstown, Ohio	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 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
Youngstownské Slovenské Noviny = Youngstown Slovak News	1910 to 1940
Amerikai Magyar Hirlap = American Magyar Journal	1911 to 1942

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1906 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500
1908 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Youngstown 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
State Theater	under 500 feet	1986
Wells Building	under 500 feet	1986
Liberty Theatre	under 500 feet	1984
Jay's Lunch	under 500 feet	1986
Erie Terminal Building-Commerce Plaza Building	under 500 feet	1986
Warner Theater	under 500 feet	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001930 in Record Group 79.
Mahoning County	All 74 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.