Commercial Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Commercial St. between McLister and Highland Aves., May, and RR tracks, Mingo Junction
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. district
Also known as. Mingo Junction MRA
National Register reference number. 87000468 - 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

1904 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Commercial Street Historic District, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Commercial Street Historic District, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Commercial Street Historic District between 1992 and 2015, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
13 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	BETHANY PIKE/GREENS RUN RD.
5 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	48 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TENT CHURCH ROAD
28 April 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CHERRY LANE
19 April 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CROSS CREEK RD.
18 April 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RABBIT HILL ROAD
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	686
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CHAPMAN HEIGHTS
9 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CROSS CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Commercial Street Historic District: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium. 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
(Facility) Steubenville Smelter	Iron, Chromium	Plant
Fairfax Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Brilliant, Ohio	Zirconium	Producer
Wheeling-Pgh/ Mingo Junction, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ Steubenville	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1935 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1997 USGS Steubenville East 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
Central Public School	0.1 miles	1987
Central High School	0.1 miles	1987
North Hill Historic District	0.4 miles	1987
Carnegie Library of Steubenville	2.5 miles	1992
First Methodist Episcopal-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church	2.5 miles	2006
Ohio Valley Clay Company	2.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000468 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 24 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.