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one of 27 National Register listings in Medina County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Seville Inn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 39 West Main St., Seville, 44273
- When was it listed? 2020-08-28
- Category. building
- Township. Westfield township
- National Register reference number. 100005486 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
603 wordsThis property stands in Westfield Township. Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 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 Westfield Township - 603 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 246 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 246 specimens collected within 10 miles of Seville Inn between 1884 and 1975: 230 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, B Zahuranec & party, Bosler and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | not recorded | |
 | Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link | 1894 | Watson, J.R. | Medina Co. |
 | Hinea Townsend, 1916 | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | unknown | Medina |
 | Halictus confusus confusus | 1885 | H. E. Summers | Medina |
 | Lilium canadense L. | 1888 | E. Barrick | Chatham |
 | Plantago cordata Lam. | 1891 | F. E. Lloyd | Selsville, north of Columbus |
 | Vicia cracca L. | 1895 | Selby, A.D. | Lodi |
 | Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
 | Aplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt. | 1898 | Illegible collector name | Medina |
 | Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819 | 1899 | A. Roberts | |
 | Tabanus pruniosus Hine, 1900 | 1899 | [Not Stated] | Medina |
All 246 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Seville Inn: 6 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Sand, Incorporated Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jones Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lodi Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Quillian Bros. Construction Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Quillian Bros. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Ramsier Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ramsier Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Seville Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $600,000 | A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 80 to 100 mph moved across southern Medina County along Interstate 76 from near Seville to Wadsworth. Most of the damage occurred along a path approximately one mile south of the highway. Several trees were downed in Seville. A private airport located two miles west of Wadsworth was severely damaged. Six airplanes at the airport were destroyed with an additional 15 planes damaged. Four homes adjacent to the airport were damaged and two nearby barns were destroyed. A shed on the airport property was also blown down. A motor home also sustained major damage. Many trees and power poles were blown down in Wadsworth. Several corn fields along the damage path were flattened. Estimates on the crop damage will not be available until after the fall harvest. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Seville | $280,000 | Residents along the west branch of the Rocky River were inundated by flood waters on the afternoon and early evening hours of July 10th. Champion Creek overflowed, causing closures at West Smith and River Styx roads and inundated a few homes. The Chippewa Lake area was flooded as the sewer backed up from excessive runoff. In Montville Township, the Medina Fire Department rescued two residents from homes along River Styx Road. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a house. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $10,000 | A few trees were reported down. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed six trees and flattened portions of a corn field. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Seville and Wadsworth. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree two miles north of Seville. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | - | Trees downed throughout Seville. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | - | Several trees downed in Seville. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Seville | - | Trained spotter reported 0.5 diameter to nickel-size hail in Seville. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Seville | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Seville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed on Interstate 71 north of Seville. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Seville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Seville | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Seville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Seville | - | Torrential thunderstorms moved over western Medina County on the 25th with rainfall rates around 1.5 inches per hour. Runoff from this excessive rainfall caused portions of Interstate 71 northbound to flood just north of State Route 83. It was impassable to cars and was closed for a short while. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Seville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| October 1999 | Hail | Seville | - | Three-quarter inch hail reported near the intersection of Interstate 76 and State Route 3. |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hulburt, Halsey, Homestead | 0.9 miles | 1988 |
 | Seville Jail | 2.0 miles | 1997 |
 | Universalist Church Of Westfield Center | 2.0 miles | 1978 |
 | Burr, George, House | 5.0 miles | 1976 |
 | Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Depot | 5.9 miles | 2013 |
 | Black River Viaduct, Baltimore And Ohio Railroad | 7.3 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005486 in Record Group 79. |
| Medina County | All 27 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.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- 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.