Greenup Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Greenup Commercial Historic District is a historic district located in the business district of Greenup, Illinois. The district includes 40 buildings, of which 31 are considered contributing buildings to the district's historic character.”
Wikipedia article Greenup Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cumberland County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 122 E.--123 W. Cumberland St., 102 N.--203 S. Kentucky St., 101 N. Mill St. and 101 E.--100 W. Illinois St., Greenup, 62428
When was it listed? February 1991
Category. district
Township. Greenup township
National Register reference number. 91000083 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greenup Commercial Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cumberland City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Greenup Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect
Oak Chapel Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Toledo City Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenup, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
May 2014	Hail	Greenup	$200,000	The hail caused roof, siding, and vehicle damage.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$18,000	Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in Greenup.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$5,000	A large tree was blown down onto powerlines south of Greenup.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$2,000	A large walnut tree was blown down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Several trees were snapped or blown down in Greenup.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A couple small outbuildings were damaged and several large tree branches were blown down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A large tree limb was blown onto power lines.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Greenup	-	Water was flowing across Route 130.
July 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Greenup	-	A tornado touched down about 3.4 miles east-northeast of Greenup just south of I-70 at 5:40 PM CDT. The tornado tracked south-southeastward, eventually crossing U.S. 40 near the intersection of County Road 1975 East. Minor crop damage occurred before the tornado dissipated at 5:43 PM CDT.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Several oak trees blown down near Greenup.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A few large tree limbs blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A large tree was blown down on Illinois Route 130 at the junction with Hazel Dell Road.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Several power lines were blown down in 5 miles northeast of Greenup.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A historic ice cream stand was destroyed by the thunderstorm winds in Greenup. No damage estimate was available.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	A tree was blown down causing damage to the roof of a church on Route 40 one mile east of Greenup. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
May 2015	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Thornton Ward Estate	3.0 miles	2001
	Cumberland County Courthouse	4.7 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cumberland County	All 3 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.
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.