Millburn Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Millburn is a former unincorporated community in Lake Villa Township and Newport Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. Millburn is located at the junction of U.S.”
Wikipedia article Millburn, Illinois, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. U.S. 45, Millburn and Grass Lake Rds., Millburn, 60046
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. district
Township. Newport township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79000851 - 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

1,057 words

This property stands in Newport Township. The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 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 Newport Township - 1,057 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Millburn Historic District between 2012 and 2018, burning about 17 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	2
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
25 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-0416
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-0361
17 March 2012	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-198

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Millburn Historic District: 3 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Economy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gurnee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wadsworth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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

2 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
	Hall, David, House	6.6 miles	2014
	Church of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery	6.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000851 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.