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Photograph of Idora Park
Photograph by Youngstown News Agency, Youngstown, Ohio, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Idora Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Mahoning County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Idora Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Idora Park, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Idora Park between 2010 and 2019, burning about 2 acres 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15192
19 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15195
10 November 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Mahoning 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 Idora Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Oakwood Billets/ Youngstown, OhioAluminumProducer
Standard Slag/ Struthers, OhioSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Us Steel/ Youngstown, OhioIronProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 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.

Maps showing this location

8 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 93000895 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mahoning CountyAll 74 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.