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Cherry Valley Coke Ovens

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Columbiana County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of Cherry Valley and Butcher Rds., Leetonia
  • When was it listed? May 1993
  • Category. structure
  • National Register reference number. 93000404 - 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.

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cherry Valley Coke Ovens, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Cherry Valley Coke Ovens, surveyed 1909

Fires near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Valley Coke Ovens between 2004 and 2020, 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
Debris and open burning4

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
9 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15511

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Valley Coke Ovens: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, 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
Kaiser Aluminum/ Columbiana, OhioChromiumProducer
Kaiser RefractoriesManganesePast Producer
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leetonia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Neiheisel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Maps showing this location

9 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
Charles Nelson Schmick House0.4 miles1991
Salem Downtown Historic District3.6 miles1995
Jones-Bowman House3.7 miles1976
Daniel Howell Hise House4.5 miles1999
South Lincoln Avenue Historic District4.9 miles1993
Burchfield Homestead5.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000404 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbiana CountyAll 45 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.