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Shriver Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Shriver Farmstead is a historic farm located on County Line Road northwest of Virden, Illinois. The farm consists of an historic mansion, two barns and a smokehouse; it also includes a creek on 6.12 acres of land.”

Wikipedia article Shriver Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Macoupin County · listed in 1980 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NW of Virden, Virden, 62690
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Township. Virden township
  • National Register reference number. 80001387 - 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

1,323 words

The chapter on Virden Township in History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names Virden. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Virden township lies in the extreme northeastern corner of the county and is bounded on the north by Sangamon county, on the east by Montgomery county, on the south by Girard township, and on the west by North Otter township. The land is mostly prairie. As the years have passed the farms have been well improved and highly cultivated, being settled by a thrifty and energetic class of farmers. The land is afforded good drainage by Sugar and Brush creeks.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

In 1890 the census gave Virden a population of 1,160. Today it has, by the United States census an even 4,000, and is still growing, not only in the number of its citizens, but in a business way. Virden is a first class little city and its mining interests made for it one of the principal coal centers of the county. Its mercantile houses compare very favorably with places of more consequence and the buildings, which surround the public square, are, many of them, new and attractive in appearance. In 1910 Jackson street, considered the main thoroughfare of the city, was paved with brick from Dye street to Madison. Within the past seven years about twenty miles of cement sidewalks have been laid and a project is now on foot by the citizens for the building of waterworks. For some years an electric light plant has been in operation, built by corporate interests, and it is one of the most complete establishments in this section of the state.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

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 Virden Township - 1,323 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shriver Farmstead: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite. 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
I. V. QuarryVermiculitePast Producer
I. V. QuarryVermiculitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Macoupin County

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virden, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindVirden$15,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindVirden-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree in Virden. As it fell it clipped a house causing moderate damage. The tree was about 3 feet in diameter.
June 2014Flash FloodVirden-Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 4 just south of Carlinville. A vehicle was submerged on West County Lane Road near Quail Lane. The person was rescued but sustained no injuries.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindVirden-A wide swath of wind damage occurred over northern Macoupin County. Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. Also, an outbuilding on the west side of Virden had part of its roof blown off.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVirden-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindVirden-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town. Also, a barn on Union Street had its roof blow off and the North Mac High School sustained minor roof and water damage.
September 2010Flash FloodVirden-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Nine Mile Road and Lead Line Road west of Virden.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVirden-A microburst occurred 1.5 miles east of Virden along Thomasville Road. The roof of a barn and one home were partially blown off and one machine shed was damaged. Also, numerous trees were either blown over or had numerous limbs broken off.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindVirden-Local emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Virden.
March 2021HailVirden-no account filed
May 2018HailVirden-no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindVirden-no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindVirden-no account filed
April 2011HailVirden-no account filed
July 2006HailVirden-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindVirden-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindVirden-no account filed
May 2003HailVirden-no account filed
May 2003HailVirden-no account filed
May 2003HailVirden-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVirden-no account filed
July 1996HailVirden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macoupin 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

1 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
Route 66, Girard to Nilwood6.7 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macoupin CountyAll 8 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.