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Glenwood School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

“Glenwood School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 1398 East 800 North Road in rural Ash Grove Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, near the village of Cissna Park. The school opened in 1887, shortly after compulsory public schooling laws in Illinois spurred a wave of rural school construction.”

Wikipedia article Glenwood School (Cissna Park, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Iroquois County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1398 East 800 North Rd., Cissna Park, 60924
  • When was it listed? May 2020
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ash Grove township
  • National Register reference number. 100005232 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

24 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cissna Park, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 tornado. 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
December 2008Thunderstorm WindCissna Park$50,000Several garage doors were blown out on Harrison Avenue. Several buildings had shingles torn off. One building suffered signifcant roof damage. A construction trailer was blown onto its side, partially crushing a parked car. Many tree limbs and power lines, which were still coated with ice from a recent ice storm, were blown down.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCissna Park$6,000An internet tower was blown down. The tower snapped an electrical line as it tipped over, and finally fell on a parked pick-up truck, cracking the windshield.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCissna Park$3,000Multiple large trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down throughout Cissna Park but no major damage was reported.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCissna Park$1,000Trees and a couple of utility poles were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCissna Park$500A power pole was blown down across Route 49.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-A private weather station measured a wind gust to 59 mph.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Cissna Park-A tornado with estimated peak winds of 75 mph touched down south of E 500 North Road and just west of N 1000 East Road where minor roof damage occurred to farm outbuildings. The tornado moved northeast, crossed E 500 North Road and collapsed the roof of a large storage building. The tornado continued moving northeast across mainly fields and ended just west of Cissna Park.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Power lines were blown down just east of Cissna Park.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Six power lines were blown down across the road along County Road N 1000 E between County Roads 800 N and East 900 N.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-A photo shared on social media showed corn that was flattened south of Cissna Park.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-A personal weather station measured a gust to 75 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Two large corrugated metal hog feed tanks (silos) were blown over. The tanks were anchored to the ground.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-A portion of a metal roof was blown off of a 30 by 50 foot farm outbuilding.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Numerous buildings on a farmstead were destroyed by winds.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2016Tornado (EF1)Cissna Park-The tornado started near the intersection of County Rd 700 N and Country Rd 1200 E as seen in corn pattern. As it moved southeast and approached the north side of Cissna Park, a small barn had a collapse of its roof structure and there were large branches down. There was damage to the school grounds on the north side of town, including the dugout of the roof blown off. One half mile northeast of town on IL-49, a couple of buildings were damaged with trees twisted down. At a residence off of Country Rd 1300 E, a house lost large sections of its roof structure, but the walls remained standing. There were also some trees snapped. As the tornado ended near County Rd 500 N, there were large branches broken and trees uprooted. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph, and max width was 440 yards. (Tornado 15 of 15).
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Wind gusts were estimated to 63 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Large tree limbs were blown down, one fell on restrooms at a park.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Cissna Park-A trained spotter observed a rain-wrapped tornado in a field. There was no damage.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-Several trees were blown down in a park.
April 2006HailCissna Park-Quarter size hail was reported half way between Cissna Park and Crescent City.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCissna Park-no account filed
April 2017HailCissna Park-no account filed
April 2001HailCissna Park-no account filed

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005232 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.
  • 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.