BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Macoupin County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Route 66, Girard to Nilwood
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. Rte 66, between IL 4 S of Girard and IL 4, Nilwood, 62640
- When was it listed? May 2002
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Route 66 through Illinois MPS
- Township. Nilwood township
- National Register reference number. 99000117 - 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
1,043 wordsThe chapter on Nilwood Township in History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names Nilwood. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Nilwood township is a rich agricultural region and is bounded on the north by Girard, on the west by South Otter, on the south by Shaw's Point township, and on the east by Montgomery county, and lies in the northeastern part of the county in the eastern tier of townships. It is well drained by Macoupin creek and its tributaries.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
The town of Nilwood is located on section 18, on the line of the Chicago & Alton railroad and is about eight miles northeast of Carlinville, the county seat. It was laid out by Samuel Mayo and Philander Bayly and surveyed in 1855 by F. H. Chapman.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
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 Nilwood Township - 1,043 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Route 66, Girard to Nilwood: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Shelbyville Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| I. V. Quarry | Vermiculite | Past Producer | ||
| I. V. Quarry | Vermiculite | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nilwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Nilwood | $1,000 | Large hail damaged a car windshield just west of Nilwood. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. Just northwest of Nilwood, an 18 to 24 inch diameter tree was snapped off at the base. In Atwater, a mature pine tree was uprooted. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | - | Two 80 by 30 foot storage sheds were destroyed. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees along Emmerson Airline Road. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off of two sheds just northwest of Nilwood. Much of the debris was scattered north and east of the property. Several pieces of wood from the sheds were sticking out of the mud in a nearby corn field. |
| February 2008 | Flash Flood | Nilwood | - | Two to four inches of rain fell over portions of Macoupin county during the evening hours of February 5th. The viaduct on Illinois Route 16 in Shipman was flooded and viaducts on the north and south sides of Carlinville on Illinois Route 4 were flooded. Also, water was reported over several roads including Enslow Road just northeast of Standard City. Briar Creek on the east side of Carlinville overflowed its banks, causing minor flooding on several streets in the area. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nilwood | - | Local law enforcement reported several large trees down. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Nilwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Nilwood | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shriver Farmstead | 6.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000117 in Record Group 79. |
| Macoupin County | All 8 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.
- 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.