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Aurora Broadway Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Aurora Broadway Historic District (Additional Documentation) in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000121

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Aurora Broadway Historic District (Additional Documentation): 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Aurora QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feltes Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hafrenrichter Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this property

60 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 84 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 48 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 3 flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2007Thunderstorm WindAurora$200,000A maintenance building and two condo buildings were damaged by high winds. Ten large trees were also uprooted.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAurora$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph in Aurora. A 14 inch diameter maple tree was blown down onto a garage. Part of a roof was ripped off of an apartment complex with water causing damage to 96 units.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAurora$50,000Two businesses were damaged by winds. The roof was torn off a body shop. A tractor semi-trailer was overturned. The damage occurred on the east side of Aurora near Interstate 88.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAurora$20,000A large tree was blown down and crushed a car at the corner of Jackson Street and Parker Avenue.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindAurora$5,000Ten inch diameter tree blown down at Church Street and Interstate 88, blocking westbound Interstate 88. On vehicle was damaged.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAurora$1,000A tree was blown down onto a car. A nearby mesonet site measured a wind gust to 59 mph.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-Fascia was partially torn off of a house in northwest Aurora.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAurora-Multiple trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down across Aurora with over 100 reports of damage.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree limb was blown down blocking a roadway.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAurora-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAurora-Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A tree was down and blocking Exposition Ave in North Aurora.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAurora-A healthy tree had split and was blocking a residential road in Aurora.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAurora-A large tree branch was downed south of Aurora.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-An NWS employee reported a sizeable tree branch down, easily over one inch in diameter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAurora-Numerous medium size tree limbs were blown down between Illinois Avenue and Indian Trail.
April 2023HailAurora-Golf ball size hail was reported at Aurora University.
April 2023HailAurora-Tennis ball size hail was reported at West Aurora High School.
April 2023HailAurora-Ping pong ball size hail was reported at East Aurora High School.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A section of metal roofing panels was torn off of the Huntoon Stables on the east side of Highland Park in North Aurora.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A tree was blown down across N Randall Rd north of W Indian Trail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAurora-Emergency management reported numerous trees and power lines down across Aurora.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAurora-A tree was reported down near Aurora University. Time was estimated using radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A webcam caught a large tree that was blown over along the Fox River.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindAurora-There were multiple reports of tree and power line damage in the Aurora area. Some of the more significant reports included a 40 inch diameter Locust tree uprooted on Kennsington; a 36 inch diameter tree uprooted on West Downer; two 30 inch diameter trees snapped at the trunk, one on Havenshire Road and the other on Legacy; a 26 inch diameter tree uprooted on East Galena and a 20 inch diameter tree uprooted at Broadway and Washington.
June 2021HailAurora-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAurora-Multiple trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAurora-A 12 inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAurora-A large tree limb was blown down in Wilder Park. A nearby utility pole was tilted.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree was snapped.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAurora-Large trees and power lines were blown down onto a house and car near Garfield Avenue and Franklin Avenue.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree was blown down in a backyard in North Aurora.
July 2017HailAurora-Hail between nickel and ping pong ball size was reported at multiple locations.
June 2017HailAurora-Nickel size hail was reported near Aurora.
May 2014HailNorth Aurora-Numerous reports of hail penny to golf ball size came in from near Aurora.
May 2014HailNorth Aurora-Numerous reports of hail between 1.00 inches and 1.75 inches came in from Aurora.
November 2012HailAurora-Hail fell at Wolfs Crossing and Eola Road.
August 2010FloodNorth Aurora-Up to four inches of standing water was reported on roads south of Interstate 88 in Aurora.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAurora-Aurora city crews received 245 calls regarding trees or tree limbs that were blown down in Aurora.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindAurora-Six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-An eight inch diameter tree was broken at its base.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAurora-A tree was blown down onto a house on Front Street.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAurora-A wind gust to 70 mph was measured at Aurora High School.
March 2007FloodAurora-Numerous roads were closed due to high water, in addition to flooded fields, ditches and streams. Aurora only measured 0.90 inches of rainfall but estimated another inch of water from melting snow.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindAurora-Tree limbs blown down.
July 2007Flash FloodAurora-Four to six inches of flowing water at Middle Avenue and Second Street. Aurora measured 2.07 inches of rain.
April 2006HailAurora-Hail as big as golfballs were reported around the city of Aurora.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAurora-A five inch diameter tree limb was blown down near Normantown and Montgomery Roads.
October 2006HailAurora-Nickel size hail reported at Route 59 and Liberty Road.
March 2004HailAurora-Reported 3 miles west of intersection of Interstate 88 and State Highway 47
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAurora-Trees were blown down in the road at the intersection of Elmwood and Sullivan Roads.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAurora-A tree was blown down at Elmwood and Sullivan Roads.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAurora-Trees were uprooted at the intersection of Dugan Avenue and Route 30.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAurora-Trees were blown down at Route 47 and Walker Road.
June 2004Flash FloodAurora-One lane was closed due to flooding at the intersection of Sullivan Road and Route 31. A total of 2.15 inches of rain was reported.
July 2003HailAurora-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Aurora. Golf ball size hail was reported at Route 25 and Route 31.
August 2003HailAurora-Reported along Fifth Avenue.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAurora-A microburst damaged tree limbs and power lines in a small section of Aurora. A large tree limb fell on the roof of a house.
March 2026HailAurora-no account filed
March 2026HailAurora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Paramount Theatreunder 500 feet1980
Stolp Island Historic District0.1 miles1986
GAR Memorial Building0.1 miles1984
Graham Building0.1 miles1982
Keystone Building0.1 miles1980
Hotel Aurora0.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100008483 in Record Group 79.
Kane CountyAll 86 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.