Pierre Menard House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Menard, Pierre, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Fort Kaskaskia State Park, Ellis Grove, 62241
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Precinct. Ellis Grove precinct
National Register reference number. 70000245 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pierre Menard House between 2013 and 2017, burning about 6 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	4
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
1 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	840917
16 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	017-2013
27 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	29-2014
22 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	27-2014
12 February 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	170217

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pierre Menard House: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chester Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Menard State Penitentiary Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis Grove, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 11 hail, 4 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
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis Grove	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
July 2004	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	A local radio station reported quarter size hail in Ellis Grove.
April 2002	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2021	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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

4 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
Old Fire Station	5.6 miles	2018
Frederick Weister House	5.8 miles	2018
Weinrich, Christian F.	5.8 miles	2018
Mary's River Covered Bridge	7.7 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 12 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.