Olympia Fields Country Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Olympia Fields Country Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, about 25 miles (40 km) south of The Loop. It contains two eighteen-hole courses, North and South.”
Wikipedia article Olympia Fields Country Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2800 Country Club Dr., Olymbia Fields, 60461
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. district
Township. Rich township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000082 - 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Olympia Fields Country Club in 2005, burning under an acre 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Olympia Fields Country Club: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Thorton Plant Lime	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Brownell Improvement Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Chicago Hghts City Eng	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thorton Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Map coverage status

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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
The Rockwell House	1.2 miles	2024
Bloom Township High School	2.1 miles	1982
Flat Iron Building	2.7 miles	2003
Ravisloe Country Club	3.1 miles	2021
Karl Vogt Building	6.5 miles	1988
Ford Airport Hanger	7.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000082 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 621 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.