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one of 7 National Register listings in Van Wert County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Convoy Opera House-City Hall-Firehouse Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 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. 111 South Main St., Convoy, 45832
- When was it listed? 2021-02-26
- Category. building
- Township. Tully township
- National Register reference number. 100006162 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 118 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 118 specimens collected within 10 miles of Convoy Opera House-City Hall-Firehouse Building between 1893 and 1970: 113 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bonnewitz L. R.; Stevenson J. A., Bonnewitz Lee R. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Hoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio |
 | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Hoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio |
 | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Hoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio |
 | Albugo platensis (Speg.) Swingle | 1921 | Stevenson, John A. | Van Wert |
| Cladosporium paeoniae Pass. | 1921 | Stevenson John A. | Van Wert | |
 | Puccinia iridis Wallr. | 1921 | Stevenson J. A. | Van Wert |
 | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1922 | Price, H. (Homer) | Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
 | Dendrocopos pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1922 | Price, H. (Homer) | near Paulding Co line, Blue Creek Banks, Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
 | Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1922 | not recorded | No specific locality recorded. |
 | Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1924 | H. T. Price | Rodney Graham Woods |
 | Bubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1926 | Price, H. (Homer) | Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
 | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1929 | Price, H. (Homer) | Convoy, Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
All 118 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Convoy Opera House-City Hall-Firehouse Building: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Plant 0 | Magnesite | Plant |
Storms near this property
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Convoy, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2007 | Lightning | Convoy | $65,000 | Lightning struck a 40 foot oak tree, causing it to drop onto a home at the intersection of Payne and Convoy roads. Significant damage resulted to the home, but no injuries were reported. Damage is estimated at $65,000. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | $40,000 | A semi hauling a modular home was overturned on westbound US 30 northeast of Convoy. The structure was destroyed as a result of the accident. |
| February 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Convoy | $30,000 | A weak circulation touched down on the north side of Convoy Road|at a residence where two tree limbs fell in a convergent pattern and|debris from a swing set was thrown down the center point of the|path. The outer edge of the circulation also picked up an small,|unanchored chicken coop over a shed, clipping the roof corner and|dropping on the east side . The tornado pushed in the SW side of a|large metal shed and pushing out metal roofing. The tornado|continued across Sycamore St, crossing SR 49 and began weakening|as it move across Hall Dr, producing sporadic tree and shingle|damage. The tornado lifted before reaching Franklin St. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | $25,000 | Emergency management reported damage to a school sports complex with large sections of bleachers tossed and cement block dugouts at a baseball diamond destroyed. Windows were blown out of a house next to the complex. Winds were estimated around 90 MPH from a microburst. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | $15,000 | Roof ripped off an autobody shop and thrown into a car. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | $10,000 | A large tree was downed and shingles were blown off a roof. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Convoy | - | Emergency management officials relayed video footage of a landspout over an open, empty field. No damage occurred, resulting in an EF-U rating. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management officials reported a large tree down in Convoy. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management officials reported a semi was blown over on US-30, just west of State Route 49. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management officials reported shingles were blown off a residence. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management reported a shed was tossed roughly 80 yards and destroyed. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Convoy | - | This tornado was a secondary spin up tornado from same mesocyclone as the earlier EF-1 Van Wert County tornado. Damage found from aerial survey by Emergency Manager of mainly crop damage to corn and beans. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management officials reported a semi was blown over on US 30, just west of State Route 49. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | A mesonet site recorded a 64 mph wind gust. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | A mesonet site recorded a 59 mph wind gust. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | A mesonet site recorded a 64 mph wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Numerous trees downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Spotters reported sustained winds of 50 mph with gusts to 60 mph in the Convoy area, with the winds increasing to 70 mph as the storm passed south of Scott. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Barn roof blown off. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Convoy | - | Emergency management reported three quarter inch hail covering the roadway south of Convoy. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Convoy. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Numerous trees reported down between Convoy and Van Wert. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Large tree limbs reported down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Power lines down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | Limbs and poles down. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Convoy | - | Considerable large hail damaged some crops. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Convoy | - | no account filed |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Round Barn | 5.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Brumback Library | 7.2 miles | 1979 |
| Kauke and McCurdy Block | 7.3 miles | 2021 | |
 | Van Wert County Courthouse | 7.3 miles | 1974 |
 | Van Wert Bandstand | 7.6 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006162 in Record Group 79. |
| Van Wert County | All 7 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.