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One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Madeira Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
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
- City. Madeira city
- National Register reference number. 100008258 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1898 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
4,111 wordsThe 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 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Clavaria striata Pers. | 1899 | Aiken, Walter H. | College Hill |
 | Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1899 | C.G. Lloyd | Cincinnati |
 | Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck | 1899 | Aiken, Walter H. | Cincinnati |
 | Quercus × leana Nutt. | 1819 | Thomas Nuttall | 3 miles North of Cincinnati |
 | Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp. | 1820 | T. G. Lea | probably Cincinnatti |
 | Barbula unguiculata Hedw. | 1820 | T. G. Lea | probably Cincinnatti |
 | Sebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres. | 1827 | Lloyd C. G. | Linwood |
 | Rhus venenata DC. | 1830 | Clark, Joseph | North of Cincinnati |
 | Equisetum arvense L. | 1834 | Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G. | Cincinnati |
 | Carex comosa Boott | 1835 | Collector unspecified | In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.] |
 | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1835 | Joseph C. Frank | Cincinnati. |
| Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | Kellerman, 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continental Mineral/ Sharonville Oh | Zirconium, Titanium | Unknown | ||
| N L Industries/ Cincinnati, Ohio | Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Camp Dennison Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Camp Dennison Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Mariemont Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Mariemont Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Newtown Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Plant Number 3 Newtown Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
13 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $7,000 | A 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Madeira | $5,000 | Significant standing water was reported in some locations. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $4,000 | A few large trees were uprooted. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $3,000 | A 65 mph gust was estimated in Madeira. Penny size hail also fell in the storm. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Madeira | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $2,000 | Trees were down on power lines along Drake Road in Madiera due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $2,000 | A shutter was blown off of a house and power lines were downed due to thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $1,000 | A large tree was knocked down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madeira | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Madeira | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flood | Madeira | - | Water was reported across roadways due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Madeira | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1898 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Madeira quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Madeira quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Madeira 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jefferson Schoolhouse | 2.1 miles | 1976 |
 | Gordon E. Sunny Knolls-Pape House | 2.1 miles | 2006 |
 | United Methodist Church | 2.1 miles | 1975 |
 | Washington Heights School | 2.3 miles | 1975 |
| Montgomery Saltbox Houses | 2.7 miles | 1987 | |
| Montgomery Saltbox Houses | 2.7 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008258 in Record Group 79. |
| Hamilton County | All 371 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.