Old Morrison Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Old Morrison Mill is a historic gristmill in Burnt Prairie, Illinois. The mill was originally constructed in 1859 in Enfield and was moved to Burnt Prairie in the late nineteenth century, replacing another mill built in 1820.”
Wikipedia article Old Morrison Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1984 · 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. Off Liberty Rd., Burnt Prairie, 62820
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Township. Burnt Prairie township
National Register reference number. 84001169 - 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.

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2008	Flood	Burnt Prairie	$300,000	Many rural and county roads were flooded. U.S. Highway 45 was closed north of Enfield. A vehicle became stranded in floodwaters west of Grayville. The driver was rescued by emergency personnel. Illinois Route 1 in Crossville was closed for a few hours. In Omaha, a fertilizer and agrichemical warehouse was flooded with four feet of water.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Prairie	$20,000	A tractor-trailer rig was overturned along Interstate 64.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnt Prairie	$1,000	Tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds as a storm line moved along the I-64 corridor.
April 2007	Hail	Burnt Prairie	-	Reported at the Burnt Prairie exit on Interstate 64.
July 2012	Hail	Burnt Prairie	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Burnt Prairie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001169 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 7 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.
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.