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Clark County, Illinois

53 topographic sheets cover 38 settlements here, and 9 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

9 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Illinois within the United States
Clark County within Illinois

What the record shows

  • 607 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 9 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 6 buildings, 2 structures and 1 district.
  • 3 of the 9 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 38 populated places in this county; 38 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

9

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Archer House Hotelbuilding197676000685
Robert L. Dulaney Housebuilding199797000382
First Congregational Churchbuilding200302001753
Harlan Hallbuilding200101001309
John W. Lewis Housebuilding198282002519
Manly-McCann Housebuilding198282002520
Marshall Business Historic Districtdistrict201313000183
Old Stone Arch Bridgestructure197878001117
Old Stone Arch, National Roadstructure197575000643

Wildfire, 2007

1 fire

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1 of them, burning under an acre. None started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1958 to 2026

60 of 232 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 232 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $3,747,830 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind116
Hail64
Flash Flood31
Tornado13
Flood7
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Flash FloodWestfield$2,000,000Periods of showers and thunderstorms which produced up to 4.00 inches of rain from June 25th into the morning of June 26th saturated the ground and swelled area creeks in northern Clark County. A round of thunderstorms during the afternoon of June 26th rapidly produced an additional 3.00 to 5.00 inches of rain resulting in widespread flash flooding. Most roads were flooded in the northern part of the county, and one road washed out about 5 miles north of Marshall. U.S. Highway 40 and State Route 1 were closed at times. Several homes and businesses in the city of Marshall suffered flood damage. The widespread flooding did not subside until late in the morning on June 27th.
June 2008FloodWestfield$500,000Copious amounts of rain, ranging from 9 to 11 inches fell across Clark County, mainly on June 6th. Nearly 100 homes were damaged by the flooding, and every county road was under water. Interstate 70 was closed from late in the evening on the 6th through much of the day on the 7th due to the flooding. Clark County was declared a disaster area due to the extensive flooding.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Westfield$350,000A tornado touched down 4 miles southeast of Westfield. It destroyed 3 machine sheds, a barn, and several trees. The nearby house did not sustain any damage. As it travelled to the northeast, another farm was hit. Two sheds, a brooder house, and half a barn were destroyed. The house sustained major damage with a large hole in the roof and almost every window was shattered. Debris was found up to two miles away. The house was shifted on its foundation which caused the concrete porch to split in half. A 2x4 flew through the house and was embedded into a wall. The tornado then lifted and dissipated 3 miles west of Clarksville. No injuries were reported and damage was estimated around $350,000.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCasey$100,000Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down, causing a power outage to much of the town for several hours. A few 8 to 10-inch diameter trees were uprooted.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMarshall$75,000Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down across Marshall. An awning was damaged.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$50,000Several utility poles were damaged on 1000th St between Highway 40 and 1200th Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWestfield$42,000Several power poles were blown down along IL-49 south of Westfield.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$40,000Numerous trees were blown down, including a 20-inch diameter tree that fell onto power lines. Power was knocked out throughout Martinsville.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$35,000Three semis were blown over on I-70 northeast of Martinsville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMarshall$30,000A roof was partially ripped off a house and numerous tree branches were blown down. A fence was toppled on 8th street and the metal canopy at Lion's Den Pizza was partially destroyed.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMarshall$30,000Numerous trees were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$25,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$25,000Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down causing a large power outage in Martinsville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCasey$25,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Casey.
June 1990Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
March 1976Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$20,000A gustnado on the leading edge of thunderstorms damaged power lines on the north side of Martinsville.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindYork$20,000Several large tree branches were blown down.
July 2017LightningMarshall$20,000Lightning struck and damaged an Assisted Living Center in Marshall.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$20,000Several trees were blown down just west of Martinsville.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMarshall$20,000Several power lines were blown down in Marshall.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWest Union$20,000Several trees and tree branches were blown down in West Union.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$20,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCasey$20,000Numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCasey$15,000Several large tree limbs were blown down and a roof was partially torn off a metal shed.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Union$15,000Numerous trees were blown down.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindCasey$15,000A few trees and several large tree branches were blown down across Casey.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCasey$15,000A few power lines were blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall$15,000Numerous 6-inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in Marshall.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWestfield$15,000Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDennison$12,000A large tree was blown onto a car.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindClarksville$12,000A few trees were blown down in Clarksville.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCasey$12,000A few trees were blown down in Casey.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindClark Center$10,000A semi truck was blown over on I-70 at mile marker 141.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000Several tree branches were blown down in Marshall.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarshall$8,000Several tree limbs were blown down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWestfield$7,800Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines in Westfield. Two trees fell onto homes causing minor damage. Also, the winds damaged the roof of a mobile home. No injuries were reported but damage was estimated around $7,800.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCasey$7,000A tree was blown down onto a house in Casey.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMarshall$6,000A tree was blown down onto a house in Marshall.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMarshall$6,000A utility pole was blown down in Marshall.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$5,000Three large trees were snapped just north of Martinsville.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$5,000Several tree limbs were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$3,000Two one-foot diameter poplar trees were blown down in Martinsville.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$3,000A large tree was uprooted in Martinsville.
June 1985Tornado (F0)not stated$2,500no account filed
June 1970Tornadonot stated$2,500no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000A traffic light was blown down in Marshall.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$2,000A tree was blown down across a road in Martinsville.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindMartinsville$2,000A tree was blown down onto Cumberland Road about 2 miles east-northeast of Martinsville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000A tree was blown down and blocked the westbound lane of Clarksville Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Union$1,000A large tree was blown down.
July 1982Tornado (F0)not stated$30no account filed
May 2025Tornado (EF1)York-This tornado crossed from Crawford County into southern Clark County about 0.5 miles west of West York at 6:48 PM CDT. It continued eastward, causing EF-1 damage to trees and a farm outbuilding on the west side of the town of York before crossing the Wabash River into the National Weather Service Indianapolis County Warning Area in Sullivan County, Indiana at 6:54 PM CDT.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Livingston-A tornado touched down in a field about 3 miles south of Marshall just south of I-70 at 7:02 PM CDT. The tornado crossed I-70 where it blew over 2 semi trucks, then continued northeastward and damaged 8 large buildings and several trees at a hog farm along East 1950th Road. It then snapped several trees and tree branches and caused minor damage to outbuildings before crossing into Edgar County near the intersection of North Fern Lake Road and East 2250th Road at 7:08 PM CDT.
April 2025Tornado (EF2)Oilfield-This tornado crossed from Cumberland County into Clark County south of the intersection of County Road 000 East and County Road 1530 North at 6:48 PM CDT. It continued northeastward, damaging numerous trees and outbuildings and causing minor roof and siding damage in the community of Cleone and just north of Clarksville before passing into Edgar County just west of Flemington Creek at 7:02 PM CDT.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCasey-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSnyder-A carport was damaged.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindClarksville-An outbuilding was destroyed and several power poles were broken.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOilfield-A large tree branch was blown down and fell through the roof of a home.
March 2024HailMarshall-Cars were dented by the hail.

Mines and quarries

15 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 15 workings inside this county. 7 still produce and 8 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction7
Stone, Crushed/Broken7
Clay1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beacon Shale ExposureClayProspect
CaseyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Casey South QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clark County Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clark County Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clark County Pit 3Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Geisert Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kuykendall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lawrence East & West DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lehigh Main QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mengel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rennels PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stanfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every populated place in the county

38

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

The vanished settlements of Clark County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.