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Decorative drawing: a small railway depot with a platform canopy and a water tower. Not a photograph of this place.

Madeira Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 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.

From the record

“Other early settlers in this region were Boltzelle, David McGaughy, Major Joseph Mann (who dida great deal in his day to develop the Madison and Camargo turnpike enterprise), Thomas Stearns, sen., Squire Clason, Oliver Jones, Jacob Heltzler, and- the Hosbrooks. Some of these receive due notice elsewhere in this chapter.”

1789 History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (1881). Machine-read text.

one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 2022 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · 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. 7701 Railroad Ave., Madeira, 45243
  • When was it listed? 2022-10-14
  • Category. building
  • Township. Madeira city
  • National Register reference number. 100008258 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

4,111 words

The chapter on Madeira City in 1789 History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names Madeira. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Other early settlers in this region were Boltzelle, David McGaughy, Major Joseph Mann (who dida great deal in his day to develop the Madison and Camargo turnpike enterprise), Thomas Stearns, sen., Squire Clason, Oliver Jones, Jacob Heltzler, and- the Hosbrooks. Some of these receive due notice elsewhere in this chapter. The progenitor of the Hosbrooks in this township - grandfather of one of the founders of Madeira - was Daniel, who in the winter season, when the woods were almost impassable through deep snows, went to Columbia for salt, missed his way on his return and was frozen to death.

Passage source: 1789 History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

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 Madeira City - 4,111 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 7,095 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 7,095 specimens collected within 10 miles of Madeira Railroad Depot between 1819 and 1975: 4,126 Fungi, 1,691 Animalia, 819 Plantae, 407 Protozoa, 31 Unrecorded, 21 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Kellerman, W.A.College Hill

All 7,095 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Madeira Railroad Depot: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Camp Dennison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Camp Dennison PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newtown PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 Newtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madeira, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMadeira$7,000A few trees were knocked down. A tree fell on a vehicle, with another tree and powerlines downed on a house causing some minor damage.
June 2010Flash FloodMadeira$5,000Significant standing water was reported in some locations.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMadeira$4,000A few large trees were uprooted.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMadeira$3,000A 65 mph gust was estimated in Madeira. Penny size hail also fell in the storm.
August 2003HailMadeira$3,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMadeira$2,000Trees were down on power lines along Drake Road in Madiera due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMadeira$2,000A shutter was blown off of a house and power lines were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMadeira$1,000A large tree was knocked down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMadeira$1,000Large tree limbs were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindMadeira$1,000no account filed
June 2007HailMadeira$1,000no account filed
June 2014FloodMadeira-Water was reported across roadways due to heavy rainfall.
July 2012HailMadeira-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jefferson Schoolhouse2.1 miles1976
Sunny Knolls--Pape, Gordon E., House2.1 miles2006
United Methodist Church2.1 miles1975
Washington Heights School2.3 miles1975
Montgomery Saltbox Houses2.7 miles1987
Montgomery Saltbox Houses2.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100008258 in Record Group 79.
Hamilton CountyAll 314 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.