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Photograph of Exchange Bank
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Exchange Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Exchange Bank is a historic bank building located in Golden, Adams County, Illinois, United States. The Italian Renaissance style bank was built in 1891 for Harm Emminga.”

Wikipedia article Exchange Bank (Golden, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Quincy St., Golden, 62339
  • When was it listed? February 1987
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 86003714 - 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

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Exchange Bank between 2013 and 2015, burning about 37 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
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015017
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014024
30 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015013
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014018
22 March 2015Smoking10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015011
14 November 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013032

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindGolden-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Golden.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGolden-Storm spotters reported power lines down in Golden.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGolden-The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down in Golden.
May 2019HailGolden-no account filed
December 2015HailGolden-no account filed
July 2008HailGolden-no account filed
September 2003HailGolden-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindGolden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
F. D. Thomas House4.8 miles1983
Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery5.8 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86003714 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams CountyAll 26 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.