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Photograph of Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Sandusky County · listed in 1991 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway in 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gottron Brothers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gottron Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sandusky County

Newspapers printed here

5 papers

5 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.

NewspaperPublished
Fremont Journal Extra1861
The Freeman1849 to 1850
The Fremont Weekly Journal1867 to 1877
Fremont Journal1853 to 1866
Fremont Weekly Freeman1850 to 1853

Maps showing this location

7 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
Rutherford B. Hayes House0.2 miles1966
Ralph P. Buckland House0.8 miles1974
Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House0.9 miles1997
Frederick Fabing House0.9 miles1983
St. Paul's Episcopal Church0.9 miles1977
Joseph and Rachel Bartlett House2.1 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90002212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sandusky CountyAll 12 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.