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Andres, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Peotone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60468. The Survey maps it on the Wilton Center quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Andres within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

1,048 words on this township

The History of Will County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Peotone Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Peotone Township - 1,048 words.

Fires near this place

13 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Andres between 2012 and 2017, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-690
15 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1700715
16 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-500
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-434
12 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-401
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1700428
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-233
25 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1700369

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Andres: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andres in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Tornado (EF2)Andres$500,000A tornado touched down along Paulding Road just west of Center Road, south of the Green Garden Country Club. A garage was leveled and a house had part of its roof torn off and damage to the second story exterior walls. At the southwest corner of Bruns and 88th Avenue, barns and trees were damaged. The tornado continued along Bruns Road between 80th and 88th Avenues. On the south side of Bruns Road, a barn and an outbuilding were completely destroyed. The house lost a large section of the southeast wall on the second floor. Another house was heavily damaged with siding and a west wall blown off. North of Bruns Road, there was a barn that was practically destroyed with only a partial wall standing. A horse barn was destroyed with the stables intact and horses still standing in them. In the backyard of the next home, there were trees blown down and debris, such as trailers and a small rowboat were blown into the creek immediately north of Bruns Road. A chain link fence was pulled from the ground. Many trees were uprooted and blown over. Power lines were also blown down. The next house had damage to two garages. The doors were blown out of both garages and the roof of one garage was severely damaged. The house had siding and roof shingles blown off. A house at the east end of this section on Bruns Road, closest to 80th Avenue, had siding blown off and chimney damage. The tornado ended southwest of the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Manhattan-Monee Road, where there was minor tree damage.
September 2015Tornado (EF1)Andres$70,000A spotter was located near Green Garden Rd and Harlem and spotted the tornado looking southwest. Damage to a roof and wood swing set was reported at one home. Four to five homes suffered minor roof damage. Six tall trees were snapped and other trees were blown down, including 20 trees at a country club.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAndres-A personal weather station measured a wind gust to 78 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAndres-Numerous large trees were blown down at a farm just north of Kennedy Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAndres-A concentrated area of tree damage occurred near Route 45 and Monee-Manhattan Road.
July 2019Heavy RainAndres-Rainfall of 2.21 inches was measured in 65 minutes.
May 2019FloodAndres-Drone footage showed flooding of agricultural land along South Branch Forked Creek near Wilmington Road and Route 45.

Every storm recorded in Will 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wilton2.8 miles16
Wallingford3.3 miles13
Wilton Center4.3 miles13
Country Hills5.4 miles17
Peotone5.8 miles14
Century East6.1 miles16
Gorman Farm6.3 miles17
Manhattan6.5 miles16

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 AndresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4756103The 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 403517. 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.

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.