Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
“The Arcola Carnegie Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 407 E. The library was built in 1905 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation.”
Wikipedia article Arcola Carnegie Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1905.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Arcola Township. History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876; Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1900 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Arcola Township - 3,848 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Arcola Carnegie Public Library in 2019, 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 January 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-006 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcola, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | 3 hurt | As the severe thunderstorm moved across Douglas County, numerous reports of damage were received. In Arcola, several large trees were blown over, some of which caused damage to several tombstones and a storage shed in the cemetery. Several semis were blown over on I-57, injuring three people. A window was blown in on one business in Tuscola. In Villa Grove, the winds blew the roof off of an unoccupied house and destroyed the carport. Numerous trees were blown down countywide. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | $60,000 | A power pole was blown down and a large shed was destroyed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | $40,000 | Numerous semis were blown over on I-57 south of Arcola. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Corn was flattened along the Dougles-Coles county line. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Several semis were overturned on I-57 south of Arcola. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | A tree was blown down on Main Street in Arcola. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Arcola | - | Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2.50 inches of rain in one hour across a small part of southern Douglas County. Many roads were impassable, including a 1 mile stretch of I-57 for a short time, between the county line and the town of Arcola. |
| February 2009 | Flood | Arcola | - | Water flowed across County Road 1150 East just south of IL Route 133 near Arcola. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Several trees and power lines blown down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcola | - | Several power lines and tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Arcola | - | At 2027 CST, a confirmed tornado touched down 2 SW of Arcola and lifted three minutes later. Three out buildings were blown over. |
| February 2023 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Arcola | - | no account filed |
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.
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000459 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Douglas County | All 3 listed properties in this county. |
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