Louisville and Nashville Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Louisville and Nashville Depot, located at 101 East Railroad Street in Nashville, Illinois, is the city's former Louisville and Nashville Railroad station. The station was built in 1885 as part of the L&N's expansion through Southern Illinois in the 1880s.”
Wikipedia article Nashville station (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 E. Railroad St., Nashville, 62263
When was it listed? March 1985
Category. building
Township. Nashville township
National Register reference number. 85000496 - 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.

The ground it stands on

22,407 words

This property stands in Nashville Township. History of Washington County, Illinois, published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Nashville Township - 22,407 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Louisville and Nashville Depot: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Covington Quarry #3	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Nashville City Eng.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Washington Co. Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashville, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 26 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Lightning	Nashville	1 killed	A 51 year old man was killed by a lightning strike when he stepped out of his front door onto the porch.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	1 hurt	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$50,000	Several homes and barns were damaged three to nine miles south of Nashville with power lines and trees also blown down.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$5,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$300	Wind gusts to 60 mph knocked down trees and power lines.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$200	Several large trees and limbs were knocked down.
March 2025	Hail	Nashville	-	Half dollar sized hail was measured with a ruler by the emergency manager in Nashville.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree branches.
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds caused moderate roof damage to Nashville High School.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several power lines on the north side of town.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a utility shed, ripped some shingles off the roof of a house, and knocked over a section of fencing. Also, several trees were blown down.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines around Nashville.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to Nashville High School on the south side of town.
March 2005	Hail	Nashville	-	A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Nashville.
March 2004	Hail	Nashville	-	A cooperative observer reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2004	Hail	Nashville	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2002	Hail	Nashville	-	The County Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2002	Hail	Nashville	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2001	Hail	Nashville	-	The Illinois State Police reported 3/4 inch hail north of Nashville.
April 2000	Hail	Nashville	-	Off duty NWS personnel reported 1 1/4 inch hail near Nashville.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees in Nashville.
April 1998	Hail	Nashville	-	3/4 inch hail was reported soouthwest of Nashville.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Nashville	-	Severe storm spotters reported a brief tornado in open country. There was no damage.
May 1995	Hail	Nashville	-	Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters.
May 1995	Hail	Nashville	-	Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters.
May 2025	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
January 2012	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 3 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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.