El Paso Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The El Paso Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 149 West First Street in El Paso, Illinois, United States. The library building was built in 1906-07 to house the city's library, which originated in 1873.”
Wikipedia article El Paso Public Library (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Woodford County · listed in 1994 · 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.
Address. 149 W. First St., El Paso, 61738
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Illinois Carnegie Libraries MPS
Township. El Paso township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 94000972 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of El Paso Public Library in 2010, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	51021
14 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	141066

Every fire recorded in Woodford County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of El Paso Public Library: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	El Paso Fertilizer Co.	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown
	Panola Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Woodford County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Paso, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$65,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$40,000	Strong thunderstorm winds flattened a large area of corn.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$25,000	Several power lines were blown down in El Paso.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$14,000	Five trees were blown down and a power pole was damaged.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$3,000	A 1 to 1.5-foot diameter rotten tree knocked down powerlines at the intersection of US 24 and IL 251.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	$3,000	A large tree was blown down across a road just north of El Paso.
May 2019	Lightning	El Paso	$2,500	Lightning struck a utility pole and caused power lines to fall on I-39 near El Paso. No other damage was reported.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	A large tree was blown onto a home, causing damage to the roof and siding.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down in El Paso, resulting in power loss to half the city.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	Part of a barn roof was torn off.
October 2021	Tornado (EFU)	El Paso	-	A tornado touched down in an open field about 2 miles southwest of El Paso at 5:39 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northward across Highway 24 just west of El Paso before dissipating in a field 1.5 miles west-northwest of El Paso at 5:44 PM CDT. No damage was observed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	A garage was severely damaged.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down across El Paso.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	El Paso	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	Four miles west of El Paso, a roof was blown off of a building at a camp ground and a semi was blown over. In El Paso, several large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	A large tree was blown onto a house one mile northeast of El Paso, causing minor damage. A barn and corn bin were blown over, killing seven goats, and numerous large tree limbs were blown off as a severe thunderstorm moved across Roanoke. No damage estimate was available.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	El Paso	-	A tornado briefly touched down twisting a trampoline around a tree, throwing a swingset 40 to 50 feet, and blew down one tree. No damage estimate was available.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	El Paso	-	A large tree and a street light pole were blown down.
April 2025	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	El Paso	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	El Paso	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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

1 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
	Illinois Central Railroad and Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad Freight House	0.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000972 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodford County	All 8 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.
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.