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Andrew Cunningham Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“The Andrew Cunningham Farm is located near the Cass County, Illinois city of Virginia. The Cunningham Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, one of only two such sites in Cass County.”
Wikipedia article Andrew Cunningham Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000641- 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
2 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Andrew Cunningham Farm
in 2009, burning about 2 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
2
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
1 working within 5 miles of Andrew Cunningham Farm: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Virginia, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood.
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.
A weak tornado touched down in a field 3 miles south of Virginia just east of IL-78 at 5:05 PM CDT. The tornado tracked southeastward and crossed near the intersection of Hall Road and Conover Road before quickly dissipating by 5:08 PM CDT. No damage occurred.
A tornado touched down about 2.4 miles west-southwest of Virginia at 2:22 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward across open fields until it reached the southwest side of Virginia where it damaged a bus barn for Virginia High School. It damaged several trees and the porch of a home as it traveled through town, then damaged additional trees after it exited Virginia just southeast of the Walnut Ridge Cemetery. The tornado dissipated 0.9 miles northeast of Virginia at 2:35 PM CDT.
A tornado touched down about 4 miles south-southwest of Virginia at 7:47 PM CST. The tornado tracked northeastward, heavily damaging a farmstead on Parlier Road about a half mile west of highway 78. Here, a house had significant damage to its roof and several farm buildings were completely demolished. One horse was killed and another injured. The tornado crossed highway 78 about a half mile north of Prairie Creek. It damaged approximately 15 power poles on Conover Road and overturned several storage tanks nearby. After crossing highway 125 about 2 miles southeast of Virginia, the remainder of the track mainly consisted of damage to trees. It crossed much of the Panther Creek Fish & Wildlife Area before lifting about 2 miles west-northwest of Newmansville at 7:59 pm.
Heavy rainfall rates of 2.00 to 2.50 per hour for nearly 90 minutes resulted in flash flooding across southern Cass County. Most rural roads were impassable due to the heavy rain.
Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down in Virginia and Chandlerville. In Chandlerville, two of the trees fell onto two unoccupied vehicles destroying them. Several homes sustained roof and porch damage due to the fallen trees. No injuries were reported.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines and snapped two utility poles in half two miles east of Virginia. In Philadelphia, the thunderstorm winds blew down 13 utility poles. No injuries were reported.
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.
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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