BlockFrom the record
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1995 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Downtown Willoughy Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
The listing
- Address. Approximately nine blocks centered around the jct. of Erie and River Sts. and Euclid Ave., Willoughby
- When was it listed? November 1995
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 95001362 - 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
1905 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Downtown Willoughy Historic District in 2003, burning about 400 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | MENTOR |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Willoughy Historic District: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Abrasive. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon-Warren/ Wickliffe, Ohio | Abrasive | Producer | ||
| Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, Ohio | Silica | Producer | ||
| Quartz Scientific Inc/ Eastlake, Oh | Silica | Producer |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1905 USGS Mentor quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Mentor quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Eastlake quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Eastlake quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Eastlake quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Smart Building | under 500 feet | 1983 |
| Boyce, Julia F. Country Estate | 0.4 miles | 2023 | |
 | Louis A. Penfield House | 1.4 miles | 1997 |
| Newel K. Whitney Store | 2.4 miles | 1984 | |
| Kirtland Temple | 2.5 miles | 1969 | |
 | Edward W. and Louise C. Moore Estate | 2.6 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95001362 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 81 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.