Robinson-Bonnett Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Robinson-Bonnett Inn is a historic inn located on Whites Crossing Road in Bobtown, Illinois. The inn was built circa 1843 by the Robinson family, which ran a gristmill and sawmill in the area, and John Bonnett.”
Wikipedia article Robinson-Bonnett Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Menard County · listed in 1990 · 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.
Listed as. Robinson--Bonnett Inn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Whites Crossing Rd. E of Clary Cr., Bobtown, 62673
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. building
Precinct. Oakford No. 9 precinct
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 90001198 - 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Robinson-Bonnett Inn between 2013 and 2015, burning about 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2013-000005
30 March 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2015-000064

Every fire recorded in Menard 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 90001198 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Menard County	All 6 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.