Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Downtown Momence Historic District is a national historic district which encompasses the commercial core of downtown Momence, Illinois. The district includes 49 contributing buildings, all but two of which are commercial buildings; the remaining two are residential.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Momence Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Kankakee County · listed in 2006 · category: District.
National Register reference number.06000449- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Downtown Momence Historic District
in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Momence Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Momence, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
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.
Numerous large trees were uprooted with a small limb falling onto a car near Wilbur Street and Chatfield Street. A pine tree fell on and damaged a front porch near 2nd Street and Pine Street.
Nickel to Quarter size hail fell across parts of eastern Kankakee County, east of Momence to the Illinois Indiana state line. The hail caused signficant crop damage.
Thunderstorms developed out ahead of a coldfront that moved through northeast Illinois during the late afternoon hours. The storms produced locally heavy rainfall, strong winds and hail. In Cook County, Oak Forest reported 1.79 inches of rain and Park Forest reported 1.78 inches of rain. Wind damage resulted from these storms with wind gusts to 60 mph reported. Damage from the storms included, several large trees and power lines downed. In DuPage County, a building sustained damage from high winds. In Cook County, strong winds peeled back the roof an apartment building in Hinsdale. Damage estimated to the roof was $15,000.
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon and continued into the evening, producing strong winds, heavy rain and small hail. Downed trees and power lines resulted in numerous power outages.
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
2 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.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
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