Murphysboro Masonic Lodge No. 498 A.F & A.M

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1115 Chestnut St., Murphysboro, 62966
When was it listed? August 2024
Category. building
Township. Murphysboro township
National Register reference number. 100010700 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Murphysboro Masonic Lodge No. 498 A.F & A.M between 1999 and 2020, burning about 42 acres 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
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	FIVE POINTS
16 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	HWY 149
23 March 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	SHOAL CREEK
19 November 1999	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Shawnee National Forest	SHOAL CREEK
12 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	LITTLE LAKE WF

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

60 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murphysboro, the town this property stands in, in 119 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 32 flood, 27 hail, 8 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
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$1,000,000	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Murphysboro	$200,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Murphysboro	$100,000	Golf-ball size hail damaged cars, roofs, and siding.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$100,000	Utility poles and numerous trees were down in and around the city. At least one tree fell on a vehicle with persons inside. At least one other vehicle was damaged by a falling tree.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$100,000	Widespread damage was reported throughout the county. Rooftop heating units were damaged. A trailer was blown off of its foundation, and numerous trees were down countywide. The wind gusted to 73 mph at the middle school in Murphysboro. The automated observing system at the Carbondale airport measured a peak wind of 73 mph. Trees were down throughout Murphysboro. Minor damage was reported to several homes and businesses in town, mainly to roofs.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$100,000	In Murphysboro, windows were blown out of two structures. In Carbondale, a tree was down on two cars. One of the cars received major damage, and the other received only minor damage. In addition, a power pole was broken, a window was broken, and a couple of trees fell on power lines. In Desoto, a tree fell through the front of a vacant house. The house was destroyed by the 10-foot diameter tree. Power lines and at least one other large tree were down in Desoto. Tree debris was on roadways at nearly 20 locations, mostly in Carbondale. Numerous roads south of Carbondale were temporarily closed due to fallen trees.
April 1996	Flash Flood	Murphysboro	$100,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$50,000	Multiple trees and large tree limbs were knocked down across town, some of them onto cars and several structures. A road sign was also blown across the road.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$50,000	Trees and power lines were downed in the Carbondale and Murphysboro areas. The county sheriff department responded to 26 storm-related calls, mostly involving trees on roads or power lines. A tree landed on a car in Murphysboro. A barn was blown down in the county. On Kinkaid Lake northwest of Murphysboro, one of the main boat docks was blown apart, causing several of the attached boats to jam together. More than 20 boats in all had to be moved.
March 1997	Hail	Murphysboro	$50,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$40,000	Two barns were damaged. Airborne wood beams punctured the wall and roof of a large metal barn in numerous places. A house roof lost a small section of shingles. Tree and metal roof debris was scattered around. Based on photos, it appeared a microburst produced the small area of damage, which occurred on a bluff along the Big Muddy River.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$40,000	A trailer was thrown into another trailer. One of the trailers was destroyed. A double wide mobile home sustained major damage.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$40,000	Numerous trees and limbs were blown down, especially in the southwest portion of Murphysboro. Power lines were knocked down by the falling trees. Several houses, one trailer, and at least one vehicle were struck by downed trees and limbs. Some of the trees were large trees more than 100 years old.
February 2018	Flood	Murphysboro	$30,000	A washed out culvert prompted the closure of a street near Murphysboro High School.
March 2015	Heavy Rain	Murphysboro	$30,000	Water was over a residential street in Murphysboro. The street was still passable. Near Desoto, a secondary road was washed out because a culvert underneath the road was insufficient to handle the runoff.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$30,000	Tree damage was reported in the cities of Carbondale and Murphysboro. A wind gust to 60 mph was measured at the automated observation site at the Carbondale airport. In Murphysboro, a downed tree took down a power line that landed on a house.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$30,000	A wind gust to 66 mph was measured by wind equipment at the Carbondale/Southern Illinois airport. In Murphysboro, a few trees were uprooted. One of the trees landed on a storage shed. Another large tree fell across a street, blocking it. Some tree limbs and power lines were down.
April 1996	Flash Flood	Murphysboro	$30,000	no account filed
June 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Murphysboro	$25,000	This brief tornado occurred on the eastern outskirts of Murphysboro along and east of the Big Muddy River, just north of Illinois Route 13. A large section of roof, including the rafters, of a commercial wooden building was blown up to 300 yards. A pontoon boat was flipped over, and a second pontoon boat was lofted about 200 yards. Two wooden power poles were snapped. Several tree limbs and one tree was blown down. An eyewitness had video of the tornado. The peak winds were estimated near 95 mph.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$25,000	On the west side of the city, a large section of metal roof was peeled back and blown off a commercial masonry building. The section of roof was about 100 by 50 feet. Elsewhere in the city, a large tree fell on a church and a vehicle.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$25,000	Several trees were blown down in Carbondale. One of the largest trees landed on a house and two cars, damaging the house's roof and front porch. In rural areas outside Carbondale, a pole barn was destroyed. Some uprooted trees were also reported in Murphysboro.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$20,000	Several trees were down on power lines in the city.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds overturned a camping trailer onto a truck. A storage shed and TV tower were damaged at the same residence.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$10,000	Power lines were down in multiple locations.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down across the city.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$10,000	Wind equipment at the automated observing site at the Carbondale airport measured a gust to 60 mph. In Murphysboro, a power pole was snapped, with lines laying across a home.
June 2013	Flood	Murphysboro	$10,000	Moderate flooding occurred along the Big Muddy River at and near Murphysboro. Riverside parks, access roads, and low-lying fields were flooded. The river crested at 30.75 feet on the Murphysboro river gage on the 6th. Flood stage there is 22 feet.
March 2008	Flood	Murphysboro	$10,000	Major flooding of the Big Muddy River occurred. At the Murphysboro gage, the river crested at 37.19 feet on March 23. Flood stage there is 22 feet, and major flooding begins at 36 feet. Residents of a mobile home park were asked to voluntarily evacuate. A few houses near Shoemaker Drive in Murphysboro were flooded. A church on Route 127 was flooded. Sandbagging was done around some affected structures. Extensive flooding of low-lying fields occurred. The intersection of 3rd and Plum Streets in Murphysboro was closed. Floodwater covered the ground below an electrical substation. Slides or slumps developed along a portion of the levee near Grand Tower, prompting concerns about levee failure. Residents were asked to voluntarily evacuate a large area behind the levee. In Murphysboro, three boys were rescued after their canoe capsized near Riverside Park. The boys were found in a tree above the river. A passerby offered firefighters the use of his boat to rescue the boys.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down, including one that fell on a house and another that blocked a road. A barn was blown down on Route 127 a few miles north of Murphysboro.
August 2000	Lightning	Murphysboro	$10,000	A garage was heavily damaged when lightning struck a large tree pecan tree, sending it down onto the garage.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$7,000	Minor wind damage occurred to a home, including some metal siding blown back and shingles lifted off.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	Thunderstorm outflow winds downed a tree onto a car on 8th Street near St. Andrews Church in Murphysboro.
April 2018	Flood	Murphysboro	$5,000	Moderate flooding continued on the Big Muddy River from late March. Water encroached on a few residential streets in the southeast part of Murphysboro. A city park was partially inundated. Low-lying agricultural land outside the city was flooded. At the Murphysboro river gage, the river crested at 30.85 feet just after midnight on the 3rd. Flood stage there is 22 feet.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	Trees were down in the city.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	Several trees were blown down in Murphysboro. Trees were blown down in Carbondale. A few power poles were damaged in Carbondale.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	Power lines were down.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	A carport was hurled into a yard, where it damaged a truck. A piece of aluminum was wrapped around a tree.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	A wind gust to 66 MPH was recorded at the Murphysboro Emergency Operations Center. Tree limbs were blown down, and two police vehicles were damaged by wind-driven debris.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$5,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$4,000	A tree was down in Murphysboro. Tree limbs were down in Carbondale, including a large limb that fell on a house.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$4,000	Power lines were blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$4,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$3,000	Some tree damage occurred in the Murphysboro to Carbondale corridor. A tree was blown down on the west side of the city of Murphysboro. In Carbondale, there were at least a couple of snapped or uprooted trees.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$3,000	A few trees were down between Carbondale and Murphysboro.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$3,000	Trees were blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$3,000	Tree limbs and power lines were down in Murphysboro, De Soto, and near Elkville.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$2,000	A pecan tree was split, and a trampoline was lofted and thrown some distance.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$2,000	Large tree limbs were down in northern and central Jackson County.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$1,000	A large tree was blown down. A former police officer reported very strong winds caused the tree to fall.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Murphysboro	$1,000	A tree was down across the road.
August 1993	Hail	Murphysboro	$500	no account filed
May 2025	Hail	Murphysboro	-	Hail estimated up to two inch diameter fell on the north side of Murphysboro at Illinois Ave/6th St.
May 2024	Flood	Murphysboro	-	Minor flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River near Murphysboro in low-lying areas.
February 2022	Flood	Murphysboro	-	Minor flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River. Some low-lying woods and fields near the river were inundated. High levels on the Mississippi River caused backwater that kept the Big Muddy above flood stage into March.
July 2021	Flood	Murphysboro	-	Street flooding occurred in Murphysboro, with about three inches of water flowing across streets in places. Rainfall of 2.25 inches was measured during the day.
December 2021	Funnel Cloud	Murphysboro	-	Emergency management officials reported a funnel cloud seen on their video camera.
September 2020	Flood	Murphysboro	-	Minor street flooding was reported in Murphysboro, where 2.4 inches of rain fell in two hours.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Murphysboro	-	Flooding was reported on Route 149 between Murphysboro and Desoto. Some roadways were reported flooded near Murphysboro.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Murphysboro	-	A couple of secondary roads south of Murphysboro were covered with water.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Cornelius Hennessy Building	under 500 feet	2000
Jackson County Courthouse	under 500 feet	2015
Murphysboro Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	2022
Robert W. Hamilton House	under 500 feet	1982
Murphysboro Elks Lodge	0.2 miles	2005
Liberty Theater	0.2 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010700 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 19 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.
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.