Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2013. 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
“(Provide at least one paragraph for each area of the earliest stations built in Medina County and served the Village of Lodi with passenger and mail service, connecting its residents to rail destinations across America. The Village of Lodi had a population of in 1890, years after the depot was constructed.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Depot. Machine-read text.
one of 27 National Register listings in Medina County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.12001215- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 280 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 280 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Depot between 1888 and
1975: 269 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Roberts, BJ 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Depot: 8 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lodi, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 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.
Numerous roads were inundated and closed in and around downtown Lodi due to excessive runoff from heavy rainfall. Reports of numerous basements flooded, with some reports of vehicle damage as well.
A storm survey revealed that an EF1 tornado touched down on a farm about two miles north of Lodi, just north of U.S. Route 224. Three barns were destroyed by the tornado. As many as 100 dairy cows were trapped in a barn that collapsed and had to be rescued from the debris. Some of the animals were killed or had to be put down because the injuries were so severe. Dozens of trees were damaged along the damage path which was about a mile in length and no more than 50 yards in width.
A tornado touched down briefly in Lodi doing some structural damage. Roofs and siding were torn off of several homes with dozens of trees also downed. An amateur radio tower was knocked and the metal roofing of a local business was peeled off. Many trees were downed in the front yard of the local elementary school.
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.
From the nomination file
6,181 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register A. Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the B. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. A. Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes B. Removed from its original location C. A birthplace or grave D. A cemetery E. A reconstructed building, object, or structure F. A commemorative property G. Less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years Section 8 page 7 history. listing.) Transportation Commerce individual distinction. (Enter categories from instructions.) Architecture D.
Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or Criteria Considerations NPS Form 10-900 Areas of Significance broad patterns of our history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) tional Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration For No. 1024-001 C. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No.
1024-0018 Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Depot Medina County, OH Name of Property County and State Period of Significance 1882, 1909, 1938 Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Cultural Affiliation W. & L. E. R.R. Toledo Division Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (Provide a summary paragraph that includes The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Depot meets Criteria A & C.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 12001215, 37 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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