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Photograph of Prairie Dell Meetinghouse
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Prairie Dell Meetinghouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Prairie Dell Meetinghouse is a historic church building located at the junction of 2550 East and 2150 North Road west of Iroquois, Illinois. The church was built in 1870 by local farmers; it served congregations from multiple denominations and is the oldest known church in the area.”

Wikipedia article Prairie Dell Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Iroquois County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of 2550 East and 2150 North Rd., Iroquois, 60970
  • When was it listed? August 2005
  • Category. building
  • Township. Concord township
  • National Register reference number. 05000846 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Dell Meetinghouse: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kendall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Pit De LynchSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Pit JohnwoodSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Pit Wood TruckingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iroquois County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iroquois, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Heavy RainIroquois-Rainfall of 5.01 inches was measured in 21 hours.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Power lines were blown down near Church Avenue and Bunker Street.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Iroquois 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Watseka Downtown Historic District5.9 miles2026
Old Iroquois County Courthouse6.0 miles1975
Watseka Union Depot6.0 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000846 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iroquois CountyAll 7 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.