Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
“The Koster Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located south of Eldred, Illinois. The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the alluvial deposits of the Illinois River valley.”
Wikipedia article Koster Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Woodville Township. History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Woodville Township - 1,200 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Koster Site: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sievers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldred, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 3 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eldred | - | A member of the public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph in Eldred. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eldred | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, tree limbs and power lines. In Eldred, one tree fell onto an unoccupied car, destroying it. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Eldred | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eldred | - | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Hail | Eldred | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Eldred | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | James John Eldred House | 6.8 miles | 1999 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 72000460 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Greene County | All 12 listed properties in this county. |
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