BlockFrom the record
One of 29 National Register listings published here for LaSalle County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Norway Temperance Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. E. 2631st Rd & N. 3650th Rd, Sheridan, 60551
- When was it listed? January 2026
- Category. building
- Township. Mission township
- National Register reference number. 100012471 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
1,382 wordsThe chapter on Mission Township in History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names Sheridan. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Peter Miller, a native of Ross County, Ohio, and wife, Harriet Holderman, from Maine, came to Ob tawa in 1830; went to Pekin during the Black Hawk war, and to Holderman's Grove in the spring of 1833; madea claim and settled where Sheridan now is in the fall of the same year, the first settler inthe town of Mission, excepting thoze connected with Jesse Walker's mission among the Indians, and Schermerhorn and Hazleton. He now lives in the town of Sheridan, the town having come to him. He has oneson, Dyson, who married Harriet Beardsley, and has eight children.
Joseph Mason, from Indiana in 1885; married Isabel Neff; a blacksmith by trade; settled on S, 28 T. 35, R. 5; still living on a good farm. Has nine children : George is in Kendall Connty ; Daniel is in Serena; W. W., married Lovina Peister, live in Miller; Ellen, married Milton Reed, at Sheridan; Sarah Ann, married James Knickerbocker; Althea, married Abel Misner ; Lewis, married Ellen Hamon ; Pamelis and Joseph, at home.
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 Mission Township - 1,382 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Norway Temperance Hall between 2015 and 2020, burning about 55 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 20-249 |
| 26 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-000206 |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 15103 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 15087 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 15084 |
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 Norway Temperance Hall: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrow Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| La Salle County Fire Clay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| La Salle County Fire Clay | Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium | Past Producer | 1970 | |
| Serena Sand Plant-Zemi Corp. Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Serena Rhodes Pit / Portable #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Thompson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2018 | Lightning | Sheridan | 2 hurt | An 18 year old male and a 4 year old girl were critically injured as they passed under a tree that was struck by lightning at Robertson Field near East Church Street. The 4 year old girl may have taken a direct hit from the lightning strike. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | $1,000 | Damage to multiple two foot diameter trees was reported in Sheridan. Shingles were also blown off of a house. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Sheridan | - | A photo received shows hail larger than quarter size in Sheridan. Time was estimated by radar. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Sheridan | - | Rainfall of 1.80 inches was measured in one hour. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sheridan | - | Multiple reports of hail up to the size of quarters were received from near Sheridan. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Wind gusts were estimated between 60 and 65 mph. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Six inch diameter oak trees were blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | One tree blown down with an estimated gust to 60 mph. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Sheridan | - | The tornado was spotted by a storm chaser near the correctional facility south of Sheridan. It moved northeast causing only minor tree damage. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | The roof was torn off of a log home on County Road 2551 East. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Sheridan | - | A tornado touched down about 3 miles northwest of Millington (5.5 miles north-northeast of Sheridan) near County Roads 2900 East and 4550 North. The tornado caused damage to outbuildings and trees at 2 farms. Barn debris was spread across a field. The tornado crossed the border into Kendall county about 2.5 miles north of Millington (6.5 miles northeast of Sheridan). |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hauge Lutheran Church | under 500 feet | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012471 in Record Group 79. |
| LaSalle County | All 29 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.