Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Tamms Depot, also known as the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Depot, is a historic railroad station located on Front Street in Tamms, Illinois. Built in 1899, the depot served trains on both the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Tamms station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Alexander County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.86003168- 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
19 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Depot
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 364 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Natural
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Depot: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Diatomite, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tamms, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
In Miller City, sheds were blown down, and there was minor damage to roofs. In Tamms, there were some trees and wires down. A tree fell on a house in Urbandale.
The tornado produced only tree damage along its path through this forested area. Hardwood tree trunks were snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph as the tornado approached the Pulaski County line. The tornado continued into northwest Pulaski County.
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.
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.
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.
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