Adrian, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62330. The Survey maps it on the Colusa quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Adrian within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1932 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Colusa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

9,225 words on this township

History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Rock Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township, 6-7, as elsewhere stated, is all prairie laad. Larry's creek, emptying into the Mississippi, and Kock creek and Pilot Grove creek emptying into Crooked creek, all head within its limits, and yet none of them have any timber. It contains about three miles of the T., P. & W. across its southeast corner, and six miles of the C, B. & Q., on a due north line. The villages of Ferris and Adrian are two pleasant little places witliin its limits. The first laid out, June, 1869, by Charles G. Gilchrist and Hiram G. Ferris, is at the crossing of the T., P. & W. and C, B. & Q. roads.

Passage source: History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880.

Adrian, on the latter, was laid out by Warren Yaple and G. "W. Jacks, September, 1S73, and named from Adrian, Mich., by Arthur Rice, son of Orrin Rice, then running as postal clerk on the C, B. & Q. Railroad. Orrin Rice was born in New York, came from Cincinnati, 0., about 1857, to Oakwood, and settled in this township in 1866.

Passage source: History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880.

Our information of Church matters in this township is very limited. There is a Methodist church edifice and society at Adrian, number of members not stated ; and one, if not more churches and societies, at Ferris, of which we have no account.

Passage source: History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880.

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 Rock Creek Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Fires near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Adrian between 2003 and 2004, burning about 3 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/undetermined	1
Natural	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
24 May 2004	Natural	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adrian in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2024	Hail	Adrian	-	Report gathered from mping.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Adrian	-	Home weather station measured 90 mph wind gust. Estimated up to 100 mph winds.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Adrian	-	Full size barn flattened, full size trees uprooted laying to the east.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Adrian	-	Adrian IL, communication tower bent over. Winds estimated at 120 mph.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Adrian	-	Grain bin destroyed and rolled into a field. Winds estimated at 100 mph.

Every storm recorded in Hancock County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Colusa	3.5 miles	15
Ferris	3.6 miles	14
Burnside	3.7 miles	15
McCall	5.0 miles	14
Powellton	5.5 miles	15
Durham	6.7 miles	15
Carthage	7.4 miles	14
La Crosse	7.7 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Adrian	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14201479	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403362. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.