BlockFrom the record
One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Edward L. Ryerson Area Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Listed as. Ryerson, Edward L., Area Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 21950 N. Riverwoods Rd., Deerfield, 60015
- When was it listed? February 1996
- Category. district
- Township. Vernon township
- National Register reference number. 96000086 - 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.
The ground it stands on
1,027 wordsThis property stands in Vernon Township. The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Vernon Township - 1,027 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Edward L. Ryerson Area Historic District in 2012, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2012 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-2395-27 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Edward L. Ryerson Area Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Aptakisic Sand Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cow Hey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Deerfield | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house causing minor damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | $2,000 | Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Deerfield | - | Mesonet station DRWI2 recorded 3.17 of rain. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Multiple reports of tree damage in Deerfield including large branches down and at least one tree uprooted. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Video shared on social media showed the top of a large tree getting snapped off. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Deerfield | - | Residential street flooding was reported near Deerfield and Wilmot Roads. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Deerfield | - | Several feet of water flooded the Laurel Avenue underpass at First Street where two cars were stranded in the flood waters. Flooding was also reported at the Sheridan Road entrance to Rosewood Beach. Many other streets were flooded with standing water in Highland Park. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Gilmer and Fairfield in Wauconda. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mildred and Abel Fagen House | 2.6 miles | 2021 | |
 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Passenger Depot | 3.6 miles | 1998 |
 | Adlai Stevenson House | 3.6 miles | 2003 |
 | Robert P. Lamont House | 4.5 miles | 1993 |
 | J. Ogden Armour House | 5.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Deerpath Hill Estates Historic District | 5.3 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000086 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 98 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.