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Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1992. 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 11 National Register listings in Carroll County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92001246- 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
12 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station between
2004 and 2016, burning about 52 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
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Equipment and vehicle use
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 181 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station between 1927 and
1964: 118 Animalia, 63 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. W., Baker, C.W. 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Wheeling and Lake Erie RR Minerva Station: 4 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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.
From the nomination file
2,407 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
X|locally Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates & Beaver Canal that ran through the village was a failure, and by 1880 Minerva had a railroads, and the Pennock Brothers (I.N.& Williard) began manufacturing railroad freight position as an interchange among three railroads (PRR, NYC, W&LE)and location for New York village of1200 people had 12 passenger and 10 mail trains passing through daily, and at The W&LE station was constructed in 1916 to replace an 1880 building, which was Western (successor to the W&LE) on August 14, 1981. Today the yards and shops, which once Transportation 1916-1942 Register. Unknown See continuation sheet Significant Person one time boasted three passenger stations.
Cultural Affiliation remaining in Minerva with direct association to the railroads and their dominant economic employed so many of Minerva's population are closed and the tracks removed.The other intact building directly associated with the railroad history that was the dominant Architect/Builder The period of significance of the nominated property extends from its date of stations and the old Pennock Brothers works have all been demolished.Although the former construction in 1916 to 1942,the established 50-year cut-off date for the National continued in use solely as a freight station until its final closing by the Norfolk & The last W&LE passenger train passed through Minerva in 1937,after which the building economic theme in the development of the village of Minerva.
were the chief factor in Minerva's doubling her population between 1880 and 1890 Minerva was laid out in 1833 and grew slowly through its first half century;the Sandy cars the preceding year.The old foundry they had leased burned in1880,and the Pennocks role in the village's history.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92001246, 18 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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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