Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“Apple River Fort, today known as the Apple River Fort State Historic Site, was one of many frontier forts hastily completed by settlers in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin following the onset of the 1832 Black Hawk War. Located in present-day Elizabeth, Illinois, United States, the fort at the Apple River settlement was built in less than a week.”
Wikipedia article Apple River Fort, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Jo Daviess County · listed in 1997 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.97001332- 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.
ARmTAGE JOSEPH, Carpenter and Farmer; Sec. 19; P. O. Elizabeth; born in Yorkshire, Eng., Sept. 4, 1838; came to America in 1843; came to Jo Daviess Co. in 1843; has lived at Galena most of the time; has made five trips to the gold regions of the mountains ; married Miss Catherine Ann Bray May 7, 1862; she was born in Cornwall, Eng., in 1840; they have five children: Frank S., Mary Grace, Sarah B., Nettie, and an infant not named ; Mrs. A. is a sister of T. B. Bray, a prominent citizen of Elizabeth ; he was born in June, 1835, at Cornwall, Eng.; he came to tlrs Co. in 1843; married Miss Lucretia Robinson, a daughter of Davis Robinson, Esq., in 1857 ; they have three children : Harry Clyde, John Albert and Charles H.
ARTMAN JOSEPH J. Farmer; Sec. 34; P.O. Elizabeth; born in Prussia Nov. 15, 1847; came to this country with his parents in 1851 via New Orleans; on the route up the river his mother was taken with the cholera and died, and was buried at Memphis ; he and his father came to this-Co. and settled on his present farm, formerly owned by his uncle ; his father, who now resides with him, was born in Prussia April 16, 1814; he married Miss Josephine Ben worth in Nov., 1869; she was born in Switzerland ; have four children : Charles A., Annie R., Henry J. and Andrew; owns 336 acres land.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Apple River Fort Site
between 2008 and 2010, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
6
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
10 workings within 5 miles of Apple River Fort Site: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead. 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
Elizabeth, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
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
2 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.
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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