Union Miners Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.”
Wikipedia article Union Miners Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Macoupin County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 0.5 mi. N of Mount Olive city park, Mount Olive, 62069
When was it listed? October 1972
Category. site
Township. Mount Olive township
National Register reference number. 72000463 - 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.

The ground it stands on

587 words

This property stands in Mount Olive Township. History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 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 Mount Olive Township - 587 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Union Miners Cemetery between 2009 and 2014, burning about 16 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	5

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
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MADISON
4 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	EAGARVILLE
22 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	RT 4
19 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-000056
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BENNETT

Every fire recorded in Macoupin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Union Miners Cemetery: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Olive, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$3,300	Wind gusts as high as 75 mph knocked down numerous trees, power poles, and power lines. One tree fell and completely demolish a bandstand in Brighton. A tractor-semitrailer was blown off the road along Interstate 55 near Mount Olive as well.

Every storm recorded in Macoupin 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Soulsby Service Station	0.6 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000463 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macoupin County	All 8 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.