Robbins Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Robbins Park Historic District is a set of three hundred and sixty-eight buildings in Hinsdale, Illinois. Two hundred and thirty-two of these builds contribute to its historical value.”
Wikipedia article Robbins Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Chicago Ave., 8th St., County Line Rd., and Garfield St., Hinsdale, 60521
When was it listed? November 2008
Category. district
Township. Downers Grove township
National Register reference number. 08001098 - 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.

The ground it stands on

3,959 words

This property stands in Downers Grove 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 Downers Grove Township - 3,959 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Robbins Park Historic District 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

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Robbins Park Historic District: 8 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Downers Grove City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Federal Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Superior Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this property

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinsdale, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	$50,000	At least 50 trees were blown down with damage to hundreds of other trees. Tree limbs fell onto houses and cars. A transmission line that supplies electricity to the southern half of the city was also blown down, in addition to numerous other power lines.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Photos showed large tree limbs snapped off of trees.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Photo shared via social media showed a large tree which had been uprooted in Hinsdale. Time was estimated using radar.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	A photo shared on social media showed a large portion of roofing material peeled back on a house.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	A gust to 61 mph was measured at Hinsdale Middle School.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Thirty six trees were blown down or damaged.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Numerous medium sized tree limbs were blown down. A couple of small trees were uprooted. One large tree was split down the middle.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Five trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Several large trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A few cars received minor damage from falling tree limbs.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinsdale	-	Large tree limbs were down.
March 2026	Hail	Hinsdale	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hinsdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
William Whitney House	0.3 miles	1989
Downtown Hinsdale Historic District	0.4 miles	2006
Orland P. Bassett House	0.5 miles	2004
William and Helen Coffeen House	0.5 miles	2014
Francis Stuyvesant Peabody House	0.5 miles	2000
Robert A. and Mary Childs House	0.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001098 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.

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.