Photograph of Fort Sheridan Water Tower — Photograph by US gov, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Water Tower, Building 49

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · built in 1889, by Martin Roche, William Holabird.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Leonard Wood Ave., Fort Sheridan, 60035
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. structure
Township. Moraine township
When was it built? 1889
Architect. Martin Roche, William Holabird
National Register reference number. 74000764 - 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Water Tower, Building 49 between 2019 and 2020, burning about 38 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	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-971
15 December 2020	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2020-2498
4 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2020-2239

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Water Tower, Building 49: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Deerfield Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake 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

6 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
Fort Sheridan Historic District	under 500 feet	1980
Westover Road Non-Commissioned Officers' Housing Historic District	0.3 miles	2009
Evert House	1.1 miles	1982
Samuel Holmes House	1.2 miles	1982
Mr. Fred L. Mandel Jr. House	1.5 miles	2009
Maple Avenue Maple Lane Historic District	1.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000764 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 98 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.