Ursa Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Ursa Town Hall, also known as the Ursa Odd Fellows Lodge, is a historic building located at 109 South Warsaw Street in Ursa, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1895; from its completion, it was intended to serve both as Ursa's town hall and as a meeting place for the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Freemasons.”
Wikipedia article Ursa Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 109 S. Warsaw St., Ursa, 62376
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. building
Township. Ursa township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02000095 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ursa Town Hall: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Binger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Marce Number 7 Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ursa, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ursa	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn near Ursa.
April 1997	Tornado (F0)	Ursa	$5,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ursa	$2,000	Adams County emergency management reported winds around 65 mph in Ursa. An awning on a State of Illinois Mobile Command Post, which was park in town to cover the Mississippi River flooding, was ripped off by the wind.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ursa	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree in Ursa and several power poles and lines in Golden.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ursa	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of power lines in town.
April 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Ursa	-	A tornado touched down in a wooded area just south of the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge, west of Ursa. A few limbs and trees were blown down in this location. As it moved to the north northeast it skipped along the path damaging a few trees from time to time before finally lifting and dissipating near Lima. Several power lines were blown down on Highway 96 and a few homes sustained minor damage from the tornado in Lima.
August 2001	Hail	Ursa	-	Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail in Ursa.
May 2019	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Ursa	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ursa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lewis Round Barn	5.3 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000095 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 26 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.
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.