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Photograph of White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins
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White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins are located in rural Ogle County, Illinois near the village of Mount Morris. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ogle County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. RR #1, Mount Morris, 61054
  • When was it listed? March 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Illinois State Parks Lodges and Cabins TR
  • Township. Pine Creek township
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85002404 - 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

2,180 words

This property stands in Pine Creek Township. The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1878; Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886 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 Pine Creek Township - 2,180 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins between 2008 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
6 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROADWAY
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0327
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0323
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEKONING
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesYOCUM
10 October 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDAVIS

Every fire recorded in Ogle County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of White Pines State Park Lodge and Cabins: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Oregon Quarry & PlantSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer
Ed Schnulle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mt. Morris Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oregon Construction Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pieper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pine Rock Co. Sheely QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
R. Little QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sheely No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogle 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002404 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ogle CountyAll 29 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.