Lone Tree School

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Lone Tree School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 19292 250 North Avenue in rural Bureau County, Illinois. The school was built in 1876 to serve the community of Lone Tree and surrounding Wheatland Township.”
Wikipedia article Lone Tree School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Bureau County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1876.

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. 19292 250 North Avenue, Tiskilwa, 61368
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Township. Wheatland township
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 04000418 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lone Tree School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sheely Quarry Renner's Quarry Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiskilwa, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	A tree was blown down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	Emergency Manager reported that 3, 12 inch diameter tree branches were broken off. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
March 2023	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	A public report relayed by broadcast media.
February 2017	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	A citizen reported 1.25 inch diameter hail. The time of this report was determined from radar data.
February 2017	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	A spotter reported nickel size hail.
June 2017	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	A public report was received through social media. The time was estimated by radar data.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed just west of Tiskilwa, IL at 442 pm CDT July 23.
July 2008	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	Spotter drove through dime-sized hail the entire route from Tiskilwa, IL to Lake Thunderbird, IL between 650 pm and 657 pm July 10.
July 2008	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	Penny-sized hail fell in Tiskilwa, IL at 642 pm July 10.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	Sheriffs department reported a tree down across the Tiskilwa Bottoms Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	Several trees down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tiskilwa	-	Large tree blown over onto a road.
June 2005	Hail	Tiskilwa	-	no account filed
April 1996	Tornado (F0)	Tiskilwa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
	Stevens House	7.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bureau County	All 19 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.