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One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2026 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Burr Oak Cemetery Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
The listing
- Address. 4400 W. 127th Street, Alsip, 60803
- When was it listed? January 2026
- Category. site
- Township. Worth township
- National Register reference number. 100012473 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burr Oak Cemetery Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Yard No. 22 Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alsip, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Minor gutter damage to homes was reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Aluminum flagpole bent over and snapped off. Branches off of trees. Aluminum panels pulled off fascia on home. Relayed via twitter. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Alsip | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Interstate 294 and Cicero Avenue. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Alsip | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 294. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Large limbs, several trees and flag poles were knocked down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Large limbs were torn off of trees. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Winds blew out windows of a house in Alsip. Tree limbs were blown down on the south side of Chicago. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alsip | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | George R. Thorne House | 2.4 miles | 1997 |
 | Joshua P. Young House | 3.2 miles | 1982 |
| Oak Lawn School | 3.8 miles | 1990 | |
 | Ridge Historic District | 4.5 miles | 1976 |
 | West Pullman Elementary School | 5.1 miles | 2018 |
 | Pacesetter Gardens Historic District | 5.1 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012473 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.
- 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.