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One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wayne Depot
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. 32W305 Army Trail Rd., Wayne, 60184
- When was it listed? January 2026
- Category. building
- Township. Wayne township
- National Register reference number. 100012472 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
1,175 wordsThe chapter on Wayne Township in History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 names Wayne. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
There are no manufacturing establishments in the town, if we exclude the manufacture of brooms, which has been carried on pretty extensively at Wayne Centre. The present population is about 1,100. The town is peaceable and healthful, being cursed by neither lawyers nor doctors.
Passage source: History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857.
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 Wayne Township - 1,175 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
10 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wayne Depot between 2013 and 2014, burning about 62 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-562 |
| 4 May 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-445 |
| 7 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-177 |
| 7 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-340 |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-339 |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-337 |
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-300 |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-328 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wayne Depot: 5 past producers, 4 plants, 3 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vermiculite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zonolite Chicago Plant | Vermiculite | Plant | ||
| Fox River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fox River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bartlett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bartlett Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| East Riverdale Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Hammond Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hammonds Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Meyer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| South Elgin Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayne, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Many large trees were uprooted, large branches were broken, and corn fields were flattened near Oaklawn Farm in Wayne. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Several large tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | A tree was blown down near Nancy Lane and Powis Road. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Several large trees and tree limbs were blown down along with one utility pole. The damage was near and west of Powis Road and near and north of Army Trail Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | A tree was blown down on Shagbark Road. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayne | - | A strong thunderstorm moved east from Wayne through Carol Stream, produced wind gusts to 63 mph. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Wayne | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wayne Village Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
 | McAuley School District No. 27 | 3.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Turner Town Hall | 5.2 miles | 1991 |
 | Himmelfarb, Samuel and Eleanor House and Studio | 7.2 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012472 in Record Group 79. |
| DuPage County | All 50 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.