Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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
“The Ironton Norfolk and Western Depot is a former train station in downtown Ironton, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it served the transportation needs of its community for more than half a century, and it has been named a historic site because of its place in local history.”
Wikipedia article Ironton station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002099- 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.
Fires near this property
252 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Norfolk And Western Railroad Depot between
1992 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
112
Arson/incendiarism
54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
42
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Recreation and ceremony
8
Other causes
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 433 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Norfolk And Western Railroad Depot between 1888 and
1972: 311 Animalia, 67 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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
1 working within 5 miles of Norfolk And Western Railroad Depot: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Ironton, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Several small streams, including Symmes Creek flooded on the 4th into the 5th. The Ohio River caused minor flooding and road closures to continue into the 7th.
On South Third Street, a vacant building saw an entire wall of bricks blown out from its upper floor. The bricks toppled to the sidewalk below. One tree on Sixth Street fell onto a parked car. Trash cans, potted plants, lawn furniture and other debris were blown around town.
Fallen trees damaged the roofs of two businesses and one house. Cars were also damaged. Urban runoff from the downpour flooded the police station when a sump pump failed.
Trees were uprooted. One hard hit region was Kitts Hill area, where Crow Ridge and Homeless Roads had power lines blown down. One car was reported crushed by a fallen tree.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,680 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.
Description of the property
Situated near the bank of the Ohio River, the Ironton Norfolk and rigidly symmetrical windows and two entrances, all richly adorned and mounted by pulvinated friezes, triangular stone pediments and blind are decorated by alternating stone and brick voussoirs, which are rad1a- lasters and decorative pediments have been removed for antic1pated CONDITION bars. EXCELLENT DETERIORATED RUINS transoms similar to those of the entrances. terior wall surfaces are surmounted by a full entablature decorated with underside of the pedimental cornices. There is no basement. The central block and the wings each have a hip roof covered with metal. Western Railway Depot is a one story building consisting of a central _UNALTERED molding and scroll modillions with acanthus, is still intact.
XORIGINAL SITE walls of the building are of common bond brick in Flemish variation. The facade windows of the central block are divided by mullions. CHECK ONE _GOOD run parallel to the long axis of the depot to the immediate rear. The interior appointments in the form of wooden wainscoting, pi- There are no outbuildings connected with the building. Railroad tracks -UNEXPOSED Iluted Ionic columns resting on stone pedestals. The foundation and The corners of the building have imitation brick quoins.The ex-] pedimental raking cornices are decorated with a round cartouche remodeling.However, these materials have been salvaged and are stored block flanked on both sides by wings of lesser elevation.Projecting dentils.Block modillions also adorn the cornices of the main section.
In the early_Iwentieth Century, Ironton, Ohio, was in the heart of classical Revival, Norfolk and Western Depot in 1906 and 1907. The Nor- folk and Western Railroad had come to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1881 when it acquired the old Scioto Valley Railroad. In addition to serving the First Baptist Church, Colonial American Bank Building and the Boxley 1500-1599 COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION ART SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE PERIOD SCULPTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC PREHISTORIC PHILOSOPHY POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMUNICATIONS LITERATURE changing from charcoal iron manufacturing to the modern steel industry. XTRANSPORTATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION _1800-1899 transportation in Ironton,Ohio,and its architectural merit.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Depot is significant for its role in formal education was received at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Norfolk and Western Railroad Depot retains much of its original fabric of architecture.Still appreciated by the community of Ironton,Ohio, and character. The generated wealth of that period is reflected in Ironton's present _1700-1799 The building with its richness of classical detailing, stands as INVENTION -1600-1699 which plans to rehabilitate the depot for an appropriate use, the in l9o7,Frye designed the building early in his career. -ENGINEERING -1400-1499 -ECONOMICS _THEATER -MILITARY -RELIGION -INDUSTRY BUILDER/ARCHITECT Edward G. Frye - LAW MUSIC Building, all in Roanoke, Virginia. Frye designed many buildings for air transportation.
the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company in the course of his career. Important-people who stopped at the Norfolk and Western Depot include station in the heyday of railroad traffic before the advent of truck and design of Longwood and Radford Colleges in Virginia.Other buildings This firm was responsible for the architectural the needs of industry, the depot served as a passenger and freight resource of Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century domestic architecture, The same economic activityyresulted in the erection of the Neo- firm of Frye and Stone.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002099, 9 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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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