BlockFrom the record
One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ravisloe Country Club
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. 18231 Park Ave., Homewood, 60430
- When was it listed? September 2021
- Category. district
- Township. Bremen township
- National Register reference number. 100006865 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ravisloe Country Club in 2005, 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ravisloe Country Club: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorton Plant Lime | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Brownell Improvement Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Chicago Hghts City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Markham City Dept. of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thornton Underground Mine No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thorton Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
17 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homewood, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A photo showed a tree limb 6 to 8 inches in diameter and 15 to 20 feet long blown down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Photos shared via social media show large tree limbs downed in Homewood. Time was estimated using radar. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Homewood | - | Photos shared on social media showed George Arquilla Park was flooded. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Two large trees approximately 20 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Numerous tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A large healthy tree limb was blown down. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Homewood | - | Quarter size hail fell at 183rd Street and Highland Avenue. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Many small tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Large trees and large tree limbs were blown down with estimated wind gusts to 70 mph. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph. |
| October 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A tree fell on a power line and it snapped. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Two inch diameter tree limbs were down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Homewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Homewood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympia Fields Country Club | 3.1 miles | 2001 | |
 | Bloom Township High School | 3.7 miles | 1982 |
| The Rockwell House | 3.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Flat Iron Building | 4.5 miles | 2003 |
 | Karl Vogt Building | 5.7 miles | 1988 |
 | Pacesetter Gardens Historic District | 6.1 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006865 in Record Group 79. |
| Cook County | All 621 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.