Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Auglaize County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Auglaize, Park, Main, and Blackhoof Sts., Wapakoneta
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. district
National Register reference number. 88003131 - 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.

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 Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Buckland Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Quality Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Quality Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Auglaize County

Maps showing this location

5 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 Lima quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Wapakoneta quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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
Charles Wintzer Building	0.1 miles	2010
Auglaize County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1973
John H. Nichols House	0.1 miles	1988
First Presbyterian Church of Wapakoneta	0.2 miles	1985
St. Joseph Catholic Church and School	0.2 miles	1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and School	0.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003131 in Record Group 79.
Auglaize County	All 25 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.
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.