Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
“Butler School is a historic building in Oak Brook, Illinois. Frank Osgood Butler donated the land for the two-room schoolhouse in the late 1910s.”
Wikipedia article Butler School (Oak Brook, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in York Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 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 York Township - 2,155 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 Butler School in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Butler School: 8 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downers Grove City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Kugler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bellwood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Federal Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| West Chester City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wester Springs City Eng.-Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Brook, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in Oak Brook. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Brook | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down along Adams Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Brook | - | An eight inch diameter tree limb was blown down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Brook | - | A five inch diameter tree was sheared off, approximately 30 feet in length. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | Penny to nickel size hail was reported from a storm that moved across Oak Brook and Elmhurst. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | Hail up to quarter size fell near Butterfield Road and 22nd Street. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | Nickel size hail was reported near mile marker 135 on Interstate 88. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Brook | - | Tree limbs were blown down blocking Midwest Road south of Interstate 88. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Brook | - | Several large tree limbs, six inches in diameter, were blown down near Interstate 88 and Midwest Road. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Interstate 294 and Cermak Road. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Oak Brook | - | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Francis Stuyvesant Peabody Estate | 0.8 miles | 1994 |
 | Graue Mill | 1.3 miles | 1975 |
 | Robbins Park Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2008 |
 | Downtown Hinsdale Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2006 |
 | Immanuel Evangelical Church | 2.6 miles | 2001 |
 | William Whitney House | 2.6 miles | 1989 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000355 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| DuPage County | All 50 listed properties in this county. |
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