Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Illinois Iron Furnace is a historic iron furnace located in Shawnee National Forest near Rosiclare, Illinois. The stone and brick furnace was built sometime between 1837 and 1839 and was originally owned by businessmen Chalon Guard and Leonard White.”
Wikipedia article Illinois Iron Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.73000704- 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
40 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Illinois Iron Furnace
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 471 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 were 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
Arson/incendiarism
17
Debris and open burning
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
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
99 workings within 5 miles of Illinois Iron Furnace: 67 past producers, 17 prospects, 13 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
Rosiclare, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 8 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A narrow path of downed and uprooted trees extended through Rosiclare. One tree fell on a house in Rosiclare. In Elizabethtown, trees and power lines were down, and a few windows were blown out.
Moderate flooding occurred on the Ohio River. A campground at Saline Landing was flooded, and Front Street was flooded in Elizabethtown. There was sandbagging around homes in Elizabethtown and Cave-In-Rock. Several mobile homes and trailers in Hardin County were pulled away from the water. At Rosiclare, Illinois Route 146 was closed leading into town, and water was up about 5 feet along a floodgate. The town of Rosiclare put up the first floodgates in the lowest sections of town. However, little or no property damage occurred in Hardin County. The ferry from Cave-In-Rock to the Kentucky shore suspended operations due to high water.
Minor flooding occurred along the Ohio River. The town of Rosiclare was affected. Low-lying woods and fields were flooded, as well as some county roads.
Moderate flooding of the Ohio River continued from February into March. A portion of Illinois Route 1 was closed. There was considerable flooding of low-lying woods and fields. Rural county roads were flooded. A campground at Saline Landing was flooded, and Front Street was flooded in Elizabethtown. There was sandbagging around a few homes in Elizabethtown and Cave-In-Rock. At Rosiclare, Illinois Route 146 was closed leading into town, and water was up along a floodgate. The town of Rosiclare put up the first floodgates in the lowest sections of town. However, little or no property damage occurred in Hardin County. Total property damage estimates can be found in the February report. The ferry from Cave-In-Rock to the Kentucky shore suspended operations due to high water.
The Ohio River created numerous problems. A couple of churches were sandbagged in Cave-In-Rock and Elizabethtown. Flood gates were installed at Rosiclare. Parks and other recreational facilities outside of the levee protection system were flooded. The ferry from Cave-In-Rock to Crittenden County, KY was shut down.
Minor flooding of the Ohio River occurred. Low areas of Rosiclare were affected. Large areas of agricultural land were flooded. Crop losses were negligible since planting was not yet underway. The ferry from Hardin County, IL to Crittenden County, KY was closed for an extended duration, even longer than during the flood of 1997.
Minor flooding of the Ohio River occurred. The river remained above flood stage from mid March through mid April. On the Golconda gage in Pope County, the crest in April was 46.82 feet on the 11th. Flood stage at Golconda is 40 feet. Floodwaters approached Rosiclare. Many low-lying areas were flooded, primarily farm fields and woodlands. The ferry from Cave-In-Rock to Crittenden County, KY was shut down due to the flooding.
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.
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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