Benjaminville Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), located north of the rural village of Holder in McLean County, Illinois. It was once the site of a now-defunct village called Benjaminville, founded in 1856 after Quakers settled the area.”
Wikipedia article Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for McLean 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Holder, Holder, 61737
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. building
Township. Dawson township
National Register reference number. 83003584 - 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Benjaminville Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground in 2013, burning about 1 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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2013-156

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holder, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Holder	-	The tornado developed in an open field 3 miles south of the town of Holder. Damage was minimal, and was confined to crops. The tornado dissipated on the west edge of a large wind farm, about 3 miles to the southeast of Holder.
March 2026	Hail	Holder	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Holder	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	US Army Aircraft C-53-DO-41-20124	6.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003584 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McLean County	All 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.
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.