BlockFrom the record
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Guernsey County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wheeling Avenue Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Steubenville, Tenth, Wheeling, and Fourth Aves., Cambridge
- When was it listed? May 1987
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 87000919 - 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
1909 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 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
46 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wheeling Avenue Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15220 |
| 21 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5205 |
| 12 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5165 |
| 21 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1281 |
| 8 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15613 |
| 27 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 75 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wheeling Avenue Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Plant | Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron | Producer | ||
| Lower Kittanning Under Clay | Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum | Occurrence | 1850 |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Berwick Hotel | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | Broom Building | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | Sarchet-Burgess House | 0.1 miles | 1987 |
 | McCracken-McFarland House | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | McCracken-Scott House | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Colonel Joseph Taylor House | 0.6 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000919 in Record Group 79. |
| Guernsey County | All 22 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.