Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1997. 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 27 National Register listings in Medina County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.97001135- 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 235 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 235 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Seville Jail between 1884 and
1975: 217 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05], B Zahuranec & party 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 Seville Jail: 5 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Seville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash 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.
A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 80 to 100 mph moved across southern Medina County along Interstate 76 from near Seville to Wadsworth. Most of the damage occurred along a path approximately one mile south of the highway. Several trees were downed in Seville. A private airport located two miles west of Wadsworth was severely damaged. Six airplanes at the airport were destroyed with an additional 15 planes damaged. Four homes adjacent to the airport were damaged and two nearby barns were destroyed. A shed on the airport property was also blown down. A motor home also sustained major damage. Many trees and power poles were blown down in Wadsworth. Several corn fields along the damage path were flattened. Estimates on the crop damage will not be available until after the fall harvest.
Residents along the west branch of the Rocky River were inundated by flood waters on the afternoon and early evening hours of July 10th. Champion Creek overflowed, causing closures at West Smith and River Styx roads and inundated a few homes. The Chippewa Lake area was flooded as the sewer backed up from excessive runoff. In Montville Township, the Medina Fire Department rescued two residents from homes along River Styx Road.
Torrential thunderstorms moved over western Medina County on the 25th with rainfall rates around 1.5 inches per hour. Runoff from this excessive rainfall caused portions of Interstate 71 northbound to flood just north of State Route 83. It was impassable to cars and was closed for a short while.
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
2,446 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 Areas of Significanc Enter categories from instruction for National Register listing.) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X 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 individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person X 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 of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 97001135, 18 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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