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Photograph of Cloud State Bank
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cloud State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Cloud State Bank, also known as the People's National Bank, is located in McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois. The bank building was designed and built from 1880 to 1882 by Aaron G.”

Wikipedia article Cloud State Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 108 N. Washington St., McLeansboro, 62859
  • When was it listed? November 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. McLeansboro township
  • Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
  • National Register reference number. 78001149 - 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.

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 Cloud State Bank: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hamilton Hwy Dept PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McLeansboro, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMcLeansboro$10,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMcLeansboro$50Trees were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMcLeansboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Aaron G. Cloud Houseunder 500 feet1978
Chalon Guard and Emma Blades Cloud Houseunder 500 feet2009
St. James Episcopal Church0.1 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 4 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.
  • 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.