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Photograph of North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building in Athens, Illinois. The building was constructed between 1860 and 1862 in a Georgian style.”

Wikipedia article North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Menard County · listed in 1979 · 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. N of Athens on SR 2, Athens, 62613
  • When was it listed? March 1979
  • Category. building
  • Precinct. Athens North No. 2 precinct
  • National Register reference number. 79000858 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Athens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Indian Point QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Menard County

Storms near this property

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athens, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
July 2008Flash FloodAthens2 hurt, $40,000Two 8-inch diameter culverts were washed out on Harvest Road southwest of Athens. A car plunged into the void, resulting in two minor injuries.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAthens1 hurtThunderstorm winds blew a tent over in a park in Athens resulting in a minor injury to one person. Also, numerous power lines and tree limbs were blown down. No other injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
July 2008Flash FloodAthens$65,000High flowing water washed out a bridge and road on the south side of Athens. Parts of IL Route 29 were flooded between IL Route 123 and the town of Athens.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindAthens$15,000Large tree limbs were blown down in Athens.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Athens$10,000A tornado touched down in a field 1 mile northeast of Athens at 622 PM CDT. It moved north-northwest...damaging a window, siding, and gutters on a house before dissipating 2 miles north-northeast of Athens at 624 PM CDT.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAthens$4,000Power lines were blown down onto a house in Athens.
May 2025HailAthens-Ping-pong ball sized hail fell at Athens Community Park.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAthens-Scattered tree damage occurred throughout Athens.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAthens-Wind-driven hail damage occurred to a home north of Athens.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAthens-Several trees were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAthens-A few trees were uprooted.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAthens-A few tree limbs blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAthens-Large tree blown down, with no structural damage reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAthens-Thunderstorm winds broke off ten power poles at the base of each. Also, numerous large tree limbs were blown down and one window was blown out on a house. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
March 2025HailAthens-no account filed
May 2025HailAthens-no account filed
May 2025HailAthens-no account filed
March 2023HailAthens-no account filed
March 2023HailAthens-no account filed
August 2018HailAthens-no account filed
May 2016HailAthens-no account filed
August 2016HailAthens-no account filed
March 2012HailAthens-no account filed
March 2012HailAthens-no account filed
May 2012HailAthens-no account filed
May 2011HailAthens-no account filed
May 2011HailAthens-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAthens-no account filed
May 2009HailAthens-no account filed
May 2009HailAthens-no account filed
June 2008HailAthens-no account filed
October 1998HailAthens-no account filed
March 1997HailAthens-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAthens-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Athens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menard 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

4 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
Col. Matthew Rogers Building3.0 miles2005
Lincoln's New Salem Village6.5 miles1972
Petersburg Historic District (Boundary Increase)6.6 miles1986
Petersburg Historic District6.9 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000858 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Menard CountyAll 6 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.