Thomas J. and Caroline McClure House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Thomas J. and Caroline McClure House is a historic house in McClure, Illinois. The Queen Anne style house was built in 1882 for farmers Thomas J. and Caroline McClure.”
Wikipedia article Thomas J. and Caroline McClure House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Alexander County · listed in 1996 · 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.
Listed as. McClure, Thomas J. and Caroline, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., .5 mi. E of IL 3, McClure, 62957
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. building
Precinct. McClure precinct
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 96001341 - 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Thomas J. and Caroline McClure House between 1993 and 2018, burning about 303 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were 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
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Shawnee National Forest	MUD PUPPY
29 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	SEXTON CREEK
8 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Shawnee National Forest	REIMAN
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	28 acres	Shawnee National Forest	PIGEON
25 April 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	GALE
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Shawnee National Forest	REIMANN ROAD
17 April 2001	Natural	19 acres	Shawnee National Forest	FLICKEN
12 April 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	OTTER

Every fire recorded in Alexander County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Thomas J. and Caroline McClure House: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Unknown Silica	Silica	Past Producer
Cape Giradeau Sand Co Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dredge # 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moad Mines	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Birk 2a Pit	Diatomite	Past Producer
Birk No. 2 Pit	Diatomite	Producer
Birk No. 2 Pit	Diatomite	Producer

Every working recorded in Alexander County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClure, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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
September 1993	Hail	McClure	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alexander 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
	Thebes Courthouse	7.1 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001341 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alexander County	All 7 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.