BlockAkin, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Eastern Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62890. The Survey maps it on the Akin quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Akin quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akin in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Akin | - | Radar estimated rainfall rates from 2 to 2.5 inches per hour over a small portion of the county between Benton and Akin. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Akin | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Akin | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | 1.2 miles | 10 | |
| Akin Junction | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| Boothby | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bessie | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Parrish | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Thompsonville | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Macedonia | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Logan | 5.4 miles | 18 |
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 Akin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4701040 | 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 403371. 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.
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.