BlockFrom the record
One of 94 National Register listings published here for Lucas County · listed in 1989 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Toledo Olde Towne Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Central Ave., Cherry St., Franklin Ave., Bancroft St., and Collingwood Ave., Toledo
- When was it listed? September 1989
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 89001454 - 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Toledo Olde Towne Historic District in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Toledo Olde Towne Historic District: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Toledo Refinery Gulf | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Lula Quarry Limestone | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| White Brothers Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| White Brothers Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical Div | Iron | Producer | ||
| Interlake Inc/ Toledo, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Toledo Pickling & Steel Service Inc | Iron | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
8 papers8 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Ameryka Echo | 1902 to 1971 |
| Toledo Union Journal | 1942 to Current |
| Ameryka W Toledo I Kuryer Clevelandski | 1892 |
| Ameryka W Toledo | 1891 to 1892 |
| Ameryka | 1893 to 1902 |
| Ameryka | 1889 to 1891 |
| Toledo | 1931 to 1971 |
| Toledo Hungarian-American Weekly | 1930 to 1931 |
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.
- 1900 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old West End Historic District (Boundary Increase/Decrease) | 0.4 miles | 1984 | |
| Birckhead Place Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1983 | |
| Bronson Place | 0.5 miles | 1984 | |
 | Ashland Avenue Baptist Church | 0.7 miles | 1980 |
 | Dr. John A. Wright House | 0.7 miles | 1978 |
| Madison Avenue Historic District | 0.8 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89001454 in Record Group 79. |
| Lucas County | All 94 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.