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Photograph of Count's House
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Count's House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Count's House is a historic Greek Revival home in McHenry, Illinois. It is one of McHenry's oldest and most notable landmarks, as well as one of the finest preserved examples of Greek Revival architecture in McHenry County.”

Wikipedia article Count's House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for McHenry County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3803 Waukegan, McHenry, 60050
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. McHenry township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82002587 - 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.

Fires near this property

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Count's House between 2011 and 2012, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 July 2012Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01725
3 April 2012Debris and open burning49 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEFIANCW
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR
31 March 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOLMES
1 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12_4168

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Count's House: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Copper DepositCopperPast Producer
Big Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frams Material Co. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Valley East Gate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pistakee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Possum Run Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Raven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reiland Pit, DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rocky Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this property

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McHenry, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMchenry$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMchenry-A photo shared on social media showed a softwood tree that was blown down.
June 2024Heavy RainMchenry-Private weather station KILMCHEN111 recorded a 3 hour rainfall amount of 4.24.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMchenry-Power lines were blown down on Riverside Dr south of McCullom Lake Rd in McHenry. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
July 2022HailMchenry-Multiple reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received from McHenry.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMchenry-Power lines were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMchenry-Two large trees were blown down, one fell through a roof.
September 2019Flash FloodMchenry-Route 31 was flooded and closed between Lillian Street and Route 120.
August 2024HailMchenry-no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMchenry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Colby-Petersen Farm1.4 miles2020
Terwilliger House4.9 miles1979
George Stickney House5.1 miles1979
Col. Gustavius A. Palmer House6.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McHenry CountyAll 13 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.
  • 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.