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Ardmore Avenue Train Station
Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Ardmore Avenue station is one of two former Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) stations in Villa Park, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Ardmore Avenue Train Station.”
Wikipedia article Ardmore Avenue station (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1910.
National Register reference number.80004525- 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
2,155 words
This property stands in York Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ardmore Avenue Train Station
in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural
1
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Ardmore Avenue Train Station: 7 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Villa Park, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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 corridor of tree damage occurred in Villa Park which began near School Avenue and continued through Ardmore Avenue. Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Trees were snapped near Wisconsin Avenue and Park Boulevard.
A brief tornado with estimated peak winds of 75 mph touched down near Kenilworth Avenue and Ardmore Avenue where a highly localized corridor of tree damage occurred including multiple tree limbs and power lines blown down. The tornado moved northeast crossing St. Charles Road then Salt Creek and ended just west of Kingery Highway.
The tornado dropped in an industrial park near N Main St just north of N North Ave on the far north side of Lombard. There, it caused roof damage to a couple of buildings. It continued on into the town of Addison where it caused roof damage to office buildings. The tornado then caused primarily tree damage as it tracked across a residential area of Addison south of Fullerton Ave before lifting as it crossed Fullerton Ave at Hale St. South and east of the tornado's track was a large swath of additional damage caused by straight line winds.
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
6 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.
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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