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Photograph of Broadway Avenue Historic District
Photograph by Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Broadway Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 8 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 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Broadway Avenue Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Broadway Avenue Historic District, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Broadway Avenue Historic District in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
18 March 2018Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkHILLSIDE ROAD

Every fire recorded in Cuyahoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Broadway Avenue Historic District: 10 unknowns, 8 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Hanna Nickel Smelter/ Cleveland, OhNickelPlant
Brush Wellman/ Cleveland, OhioBerylliumProducer
Cleveland MineHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cleveland MineSaltProducer
Cuyahoga Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Dock Number 1, Whiskey Island MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Great Lakes-St Lawrence/ ClevelandFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Metallurgical Inc/ Cleveland, OhioIron, AluminumUnknown
N. L. IndustriesLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

16 papers

16 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.

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.

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
Hruby Conservatory of Music0.1 miles1979
Cleveland Worsted Mills Company0.2 miles1985
Bohemian National Hall0.5 miles1975
Panek Block0.6 miles1986
Forest City Brewery0.6 miles1976
St. Stanislaus Church0.6 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001860 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.
  • 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.