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Photograph of Fairbury City Hall
Photograph by IvoShandor, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fairbury City Hall

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Fairbury City Hall is a historic city hall in Fairbury, Illinois, United States. It was constructed in 1892 with a clock tower that was added in 1912 as a gift from local business owners.”

Wikipedia article Fairbury City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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. 101 E. Locust St., Fairbury, 61739
  • When was it listed? February 1996
  • Category. building
  • Township. Indian Grove township
  • When was it built? 1892
  • National Register reference number. 96000090 - 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

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fairbury City Hall in 2010, burning about 171 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFAIRBURY2
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFAIRBURY
6 June 2010Natural5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesAVOCA
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDAVIS
1 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGOULD
24 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesALLAN

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairbury City Hall: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
FairburyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairbury, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFairbury$10,000A huge tree fell against a house in Fairbury causing significant damage to the front of the house.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindFairbury$2,000Multiple large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairbury$1,000Several tree limbs were knocked onto power lines and some large limbs fell onto the roads blocking traffic.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Fairbury-An EF-1 tornado with peak winds around 90 mph dropped in rural northeast McLean County before crossing into Livingston County southwest of Fairbury. In the few minutes the tornado survived in Livingston County, it damaged trees and a machine shed.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Several utility poles were blown down. A farm outbuilding had its roof torn off and sustained siding damage.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFairbury-A 911 dispatch center reported power lines down and damage to trees in Fairbury.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Trees were blown down.
July 2022HailFairbury-Golf ball size hail was reported south of Fairbury, which damaged corn.
June 2021HailFairbury-A photo of quarter size hail in Fairbury was shared on social media.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Several trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Fairbury.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFairbury-A few large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2019Funnel CloudFairbury-A funnel cloud was observed near Route 24.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Power lines were blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFairbury-A wind gust to 70 mph was measured by an anemometer on a vehicle.
June 2017Flash FloodFairbury-Heavy rain caused flash flooding near Indian Creek Golf and Country Club.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindFairbury-One half mile east of Fairbury on U.S. 24. Power Pole down due to winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Numerous tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter were blown down along and south of a line from Fairbury to Chatsworth.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindFairbury-Trees were blown down.
July 2020HailFairbury-no account filed
August 2012HailFairbury-no account filed
June 2006HailFairbury-no account filed
July 2004HailFairbury-no account filed
May 2003HailFairbury-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFairbury-no account filed
April 2001Funnel CloudFairbury-no account filed
August 2001HailFairbury-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindFairbury-no account filed
May 2000Tornado (F0)Fairbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Thomas A. Beach House0.3 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000090 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 15 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.