Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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
one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
National Register reference number.87002550- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Depot between
2010 and 2010, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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 715 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Depot between 1895 and
1975: 704 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bill May, C. A. Petrovic, C. H. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Depot: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. 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.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) 1894 -1937 The Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway Depot is architecturally one of the most fertile townships of the county, the railroad took Transportation Architecture Significant Dates Architect/Builder See continuation sheet Cultural Affiliation Significant Person the market area for the surrounding region's crops and therefore significant as a well-preserved Stick Style/Eastlake influenced depot significant as a representation of the impact the railroad had on the Columbus Dispatch newspaper when it opened in December 1894. over and improved upon the major role of the canal which was expanding Replacing the original Columbus & Hocking Valley Railway Depot which growth and development of Canal Winchester.
Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: In 1867 the first train on the Columbus & Hocking Valley Period of Significance burned in 1894,this depot was built at a time when the community and no other depot like it on the Hocking Valley Railroad and it was Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Columbus, Hocking Valley, & Toledo Railway. It is historically touted as the "prettiest on the line and in Central Ohio" by the nationally Throughout history Canal winchester has been significantly impacted by enhancing the local agriculturally based economy. railroad were thriving.
with an octagonal waiting room which is one-of-a-kind along the This seems to be the major reason for such an Applicable National Register Criteria various means of transportation.It was founded in 1828 in response Railroad passed through town.with Canal Winchester being located in midpoint between Columbus capital) and Lancaster (county seat) to construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal.Being situated at a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002550, 21 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.
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