Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“Ashelford Hall is a building, erected in 1925, in the tiny community of Esmond which lies in western DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The structure has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.”
Wikipedia article Ashelford Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.95000990- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ashelford Hall
in 2005, burning under an acre 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
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Ashelford Hall: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Esmond, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 4 tornado.
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.
A tornado with estimated peak winds of 75 mph touched down in far eastern Ogle County southwest of Esmond and quickly crossed into De Kalb County. Tree and crop damage occurred along the path. Trees were uprooted just east of Esmond Road. One farm outbuilding was destroyed just east of McQueen Road and the tornado ended in a field just southeast of this location.
A brief tornado touched down in a field north of Esmond. No damage occurred with this tornado, which was determined by using high resolution satellite data.
A tornado with peak winds of 85 mph, which touched down in far eastern Ogle County, crossed into western DeKalb County between Route 64 and Welty Road. The tornado damaged a farm outbuilding on Esmond Road, just south of Route 64. A video of this tornado showed the winds entered the building on the southwest faade which caused uplift of the roof and subsequent collapse of the walls. The tornado continued moving east, immediately north of Route 64 producing sporadic tree damage. Video showed the tornado crossed Route 64, immediately east of McQueen Road and continued east of Malta Road, where it produced some tree damage and then lifted.
A brief tornado with peak winds of 60 mph touched down just north of Lindenwood Road, crossing Esmond Road and produced minor damage to a farm outbuilding's roof. This tornado was likely on the ground for less than one minute.
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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