St. James Catholic Church and Cemetery

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“James Catholic Church and Cemetery, also known as St. James at Sag Bridge Church is a historic church and cemetery in the Sag Bridge area of Lemont Township, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article St. James Catholic Church and Cemetery (Lemont, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1984 · category: Site · built in 1853.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 106th St. and Archer Ave., Lemont, 60439
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. site
Township. Lemont township
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 84001047 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. James Catholic Church and Cemetery: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Barge Slip Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lemont Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemont, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 2010	Flash Flood	Lemont	$500,000	Several roads were closed due to flooding across southern Cook County. In Chicago Heights, 202nd Street was flooded and closed from Wood Street to Ashland Avenue. Tinley Park reported 19 locations with high standing water in the streets. In Midlothian, a church suffered flooding on the first floor; several streets were flooded and standing water in some areas was estimated to be 4 feet deep. Basement flooding was also reported in some areas. Storm total rainfall amounts included 4.10 inches in Oak Forest, 2.50 inches four miles southeast of Matteson and 1.44 inches five miles east southeast of Chicago Heights.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	$1,000	Five trees were blown down across parts of Bluff Road. Other tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	A power pole was snapped along 127th St west of Archer Ave in Lemont.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	The top half of a 2 to 3 foot diameter tree was snapped off, which fell on power lines and blocked a road near Kettering Lane and Warner Avenue.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	A 61 mph gust was measured at the Lemont Emergency Operations Center.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	A semi truck was blown over on I-355 as it crossed the Des Plaines River north of Lemont. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
July 2023	Heavy Rain	Lemont	-	A private weather station, KILLOCKP56 , recorded over 2 inches of rainfall in a 30 minute period.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	Wind gusts were estimated to at least 60 mph.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Lemont	-	Flash flooding occurred in many areas in southern Cook County. Volmer Road was flooded and closed between Kedzie and Western near Olympia Fields. Cars were submerged in a Metra Station parking lot near Flossmoor. All lanes of Interstate 57 were flooded in an underpass near Matteson. Storm total rainfall amounts included 6.75 inches in Park Forest; 6.73 inches one mile southwest of Country Club Hills; 6.36 inches one mile east southeast of Flossmoor; 5.91 inches in Flossmoor; 5.65 inches one mile north northeast of Park Forest; 4.72 inches in Lansing and 4.63 inches in Homewood.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	A large section of a tree was blown down.
October 2013	Hail	Lemont	-	Nickel size hail was reported at Lemont and Main Street.
October 2006	Hail	Lemont	-	Nickel size hail reported along 127th street at New Avenue and at State Street.
March 2005	Hail	Lemont	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Lemont, 1922-1927 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1932-1937 CST.Quarter sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1934-1937 CST.
March 2005	Hail	Lemont	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Lemont, 1725-1730 CST.Quarter sized hail was reported in Chicago Ridge near the intersection of 95th St. and I-294, 1730-1735 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in Bridgeview at the intersection of 79th St. and 78th Ave, 1738-1743 CST.Nickel sized hail was reported in Hometown, 1740-1745 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in La Grange, 1740-1745 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in Bridgeview, 1755-1800 CST.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	Trees were knocked down on Main St. between Cortland Rd. and Rt. 83.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Lemont	-	A weak tornado touched down near Route 83 and Archer Roads in the Forest Preserve. No damage was reported.
March 2025	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
February 2024	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Lemont	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lemont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Historic District	3.2 miles	2011
Lemont Central Grade School	3.8 miles	1975
Lemont Methodist Episcopal Church	3.9 miles	1986
Lemont Downtown Historic District	4.2 miles	2016
Robert Vial House	4.3 miles	2007
Twin Tower Sanctuary	6.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001047 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 621 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.
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.