Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“The Lyman Scott House is a historic house located on U.S. Route 54 in Summer Hill, Pike County, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article Lyman Scott House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Atlas Township. History of Pike County. A Centennial Address Delivered by Hon. William A. Grimshaw, at Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois, July 4, 1876, published 1877 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 Atlas Township - 66 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lyman Scott House between 2008 and 2014, burning about 63 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 burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 140052 |
| 13 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 130018 |
| 11 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 140041 |
| 26 January 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | EL DARA |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lyman Scott House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Plant No. 6, Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| New Hartford Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summer Hill, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | Summer Hill | - | Another wide swath of large hail up to the size of quarters fell as the storm slowly moved to the south. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Hill | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees along Highway 54 southwest of Summer Hill. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Hill | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Zoe Theatre | 7.7 miles | 2013 |
 | Pittsfield Historic District | 7.7 miles | 1980 |
 | John Shastid House | 7.8 miles | 2003 |
 | Pittsfield East School | 7.9 miles | 1971 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83000334 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Pike County | All 11 listed properties in this county. |
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