BlockAppleton, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Persifer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61428. It stands on North Creek. The Survey maps it on the Appleton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1941 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
12,484 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois, published 1886; Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921 names this settlement in its chapter on Persifer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
At one time there were four churches in Rio Township - Congregational, Me'hodist Episcopal, Baptist and Protestant Methodist. With the exception of the Methodist, these societies have not been prosperous nor regularly kept up. The population of Rio Township, when the census of 1880 was taken, was 1,126. Since that time there has been a decrease.
Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois, published 1886.
The township has in it one little village, which is located on the line of the railroad, on the southwest corner cf section i6 and the southeast corner of section 17. It was laid off by William Robinson, Deputy Surveyor of the county, in 187 i, and was named Coburg, after the Coe brothers. Soon after it was platted, there was a public sale of lots. Messrs. Schroder & Owens bought one lot on the southeast corner of section 17, for S125, upon which they erected a building for a store, which was the first opened in town. A post-office was established here in 1 87 I and was called North Prairie. Nelson Coe was the first Postmaster. It was subsequently changed lo Rio, which name the village has since borne. It contains a church, school-house and one store. There are a number of wealthy and prominent gentlemen who live in the vicinity, and thus is it a great convenience to them to have a i»st-office and railway station so near.
Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois, published 1886.
Charles Bradford brought his family to Illinois in the same way. He brought one two-horse wagon and one sixhorse wagon. His daughter, Mrs. P. C. Benson, told me that the only incident that she could think of in the journey from Ohio was that one of the wagons upset after they had passed all the hills and streams and were only about a mile from the place where they located. Nearly all of the settlers came in wagons, but it is quite likely that a few of them came on foot.
Passage source: Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921.
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 Persifer Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleton in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Appleton | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field 1.5 miles south of Appleton. No injuries or damage were reported. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403582. 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.