Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Brookfield is one of three stations on Metra's BNSF Line in Brookfield, Illinois. The station is 12.3 miles (19.8 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line.”
Wikipedia article Brookfield station (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82004912- 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
1 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grossdale Station
in 2005, burning under an acre 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
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Grossdale Station: 10 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Brookfield, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 lightning.
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.
Three power poles were snapped along the Burlington Northern tracks from Hollywood to Rosemear Avenues. Power lines were blown down in other parts of town. A downed wire started a garage fire in the 3800 block of Cleveland Avenue.
Brookfield Zoo sustained extensive tree damage throughout the park. Dozens of large trees were blown down and snapped, along with many large tree limbs blown down. No animals or people were injured and no buildings were damaged.
Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Brookfield. Some trees were snapped or uprooted. One tree fell onto a house at the corner of Washington Avenue and McCormick Avenue, damaging the roof. Some roads were blocked by the fallen trees. Numerous trees were blown down onto the railroad tracks near the Congress Park station. A handful of trees were blown down in Kiwanis Park, including an oak tree that snapped 15 feet from its base and landed on the concession stand next to Overholt Field.
Intense downbursts or possibly a brief gustnado blew down large tree limbs and trees, damaging homes and cars. Strong winds caused some roof damage. At the Brookfield Zoo, trees were damaged and a tram overturned.
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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