Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
“Garvey House, also known as the Garvey-Ferry House, is a historic house located at 8 Fair Oaks Drive in Leland Grove, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article Hugh M. Garvey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Sangamon County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Capital Township. History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 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 Capital Township - 9,795 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hugh M. Garvey House in 2010, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | OSWOLD |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hugh M. Garvey House: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Springfield Clay Prod.Co.Pitclay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Springfield Pit Solomon Service | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Sangamon County Highway Department | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Springfield City Eng. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland Grove, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | $5,000 | Tree limbs were snapped in the town of Jerome. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | Trees were blown down at Iles Avenue and Leonard Street and at Leonard Street and Reed Avenue. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A large tree was blown over in the Montvale subdivision. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A tree was blown down and blocked one lane of Chatham Road in Springfield. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Alvin S. Keys House | 0.2 miles | 1994 |
 | Dr. Charles Compton House | 0.4 miles | 2017 |
| Washington Park | 0.7 miles | 1992 | |
 | John L. Lewis House | 1.0 miles | 1979 |
 | Heimberger House | 1.2 miles | 2014 |
 | Gov. Richard Yates House | 1.3 miles | 1984 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000898 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Sangamon County | All 68 listed properties in this county. |
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