BlockFrom the record
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Boom Town Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by W. Wooster, S. Church, N. Grove, N. Maple, and Buttonwood, Bowling Green
- When was it listed? May 1987
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 87000693 - 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
1901 to 1994The 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.
Fires near this property
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Boom Town Historic District in 2002, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boom Town Historic District: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Maps showing this location
7 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.
- 1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Street Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1980 | |
 | U.S. Post Office | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Floral Hall | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Wood County Courthouse And Jail | 0.5 miles | 1974 |
 | Wood County Home and Infirmary | 2.6 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000693 in Record Group 79. |
| Wood County | All 29 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.