Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
From the record
“The Lemont Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district encompassing 14 city blocks in downtown Lemont, Illinois. The district has served as the village's downtown since the 1850s when the newly opened Illinois & Michigan Canal and subsequent limestone quarrying in the area sparked a local economic boom.”
Wikipedia article Lemont Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 16000582 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lemont Downtown Historic District
in 2020, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Debris and open burning
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Lemont Downtown Historic District: 6 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lemont, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Several roads were closed due to flooding across southern Cook County. In Chicago Heights, 202nd Street was flooded and closed from Wood Street to Ashland Avenue. Tinley Park reported 19 locations with high standing water in the streets. In Midlothian, a church suffered flooding on the first floor; several streets were flooded and standing water in some areas was estimated to be 4 feet deep. Basement flooding was also reported in some areas. Storm total rainfall amounts included 4.10 inches in Oak Forest, 2.50 inches four miles southeast of Matteson and 1.44 inches five miles east southeast of Chicago Heights.
Flash flooding occurred in many areas in southern Cook County. Volmer Road was flooded and closed between Kedzie and Western near Olympia Fields. Cars were submerged in a Metra Station parking lot near Flossmoor. All lanes of Interstate 57 were flooded in an underpass near Matteson. Storm total rainfall amounts included 6.75 inches in Park Forest; 6.73 inches one mile southwest of Country Club Hills; 6.36 inches one mile east southeast of Flossmoor; 5.91 inches in Flossmoor; 5.65 inches one mile north northeast of Park Forest; 4.72 inches in Lansing and 4.63 inches in Homewood.
Golf ball sized hail was reported in Lemont, 1922-1927 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1932-1937 CST.Quarter sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1934-1937 CST.
Quarter sized hail was reported in Lemont, 1725-1730 CST.Quarter sized hail was reported in Chicago Ridge near the intersection of 95th St. and I-294, 1730-1735 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in Bridgeview at the intersection of 79th St. and 78th Ave, 1738-1743 CST.Nickel sized hail was reported in Hometown, 1740-1745 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1740-1745 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in Bridgeview, 1755-1800 CST.
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
5 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.
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.
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