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One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Westover Road Non-Commissioned Officers' Housing Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- Address. 339-355 Westover Rd., Highwood, 60040
- When was it listed? October 2009
- Category. district
- Township. Moraine township
- National Register reference number. 08000399 - 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
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Westover Road Non-Commissioned Officers' Housing Historic District between 2019 and 2020, burning about 38 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-971 |
| 15 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-2498 |
| 4 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-2239 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Westover Road Non-Commissioned Officers' Housing Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highwood, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Highwood | - | Mesonet station ECCIL recorded 3.41 of rain. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Highwood | - | Several roads were flooded and closed in Highland Park. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highwood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highwood | - | A wind gust to 59 mph was measured. A large tree fell onto power lines with a utility pole bent over. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highwood | - | A 20 inch diameter tree was blown down onto a road. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Highwood | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Water Tower, Building 49 | 0.3 miles | 1974 |
 | Fort Sheridan Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Evert House | 1.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Samuel Holmes House | 1.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Mr. Fred L. Mandel Jr. House | 1.5 miles | 2009 |
 | Maple Avenue Maple Lane Historic District | 1.5 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000399 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 98 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.
- 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.