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North End Neighborhood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1904 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering North End Neighborhood Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering North End Neighborhood Historic District, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of North End Neighborhood Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryCASEY DRIVE
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism48 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTENT CHURCH ROAD
28 April 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCHERRY LANE
19 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCROSS CREEK RD.
17 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryKINGS CREEK ROAD
1 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1783
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWALLER RD

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

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 North End Neighborhood Historic District: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. 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) Steubenville SmelterIron, ChromiumPlant
Wheeling-Pgh/ Mingo Junction, OhioIronProducer
Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ SteubenvilleIronProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper 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
True American1855 to 1861

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001486 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson CountyAll 24 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.