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Photograph of Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo
Photograph by LeeT, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo, also known as Christ Church Limestone or the Old Stone Church, is in Limestone Township, Peoria County, Illinois near Norwood, Illinois. The church was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Peoria County · listed in 1983 · 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. W of Norwood Park on Christ Church Rd., Norwood Park, 61604
  • When was it listed? February 1983
  • Category. building
  • Township. Limestone township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 83000333 - 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

4,494 words

This property stands in Limestone Township. The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 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.

Read the whole chapter on Limestone Township - 4,494 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo between 2009 and 2018, burning about 12 acres 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2018320
3 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMURR
23 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9273
21 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9270
21 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWORTH
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources269
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources261
20 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDUNDEE

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Christ Church of Lower Kickapoo: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Joos Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peoria Blacktop Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Peoria 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John C. Proctor Recreation Center5.5 miles1979
Pettingill-Morron House5.6 miles1976
Lincoln Branch Peoria Public Library5.7 miles2014
West Bluff Historic District5.7 miles1976
Peoria State Hospital5.8 miles1982
Peoria Mineral Springs5.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000333 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Peoria CountyAll 35 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.