Barrow, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roodhouse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62082. The Survey maps it on the Alsey quadrangle.

Barrow within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Alsey quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Roodhouse township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879 - Roodhouse Township

Wolf Scalps

Any person claiming a bounty shall produce the scalp or scalps with the ears thereon, within sixty days after the wolf or wolves shall have been caught, to the Clerk of the County Board, who shall administer to said person the following oath or aflBrmation, to-wit: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that the scalp or scalps here produced by you was taken from a wolf or wolves killed and first captured by yourself within the limits of this county, and within the sixty dayslast past."

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In the county-history sources

85,575 words on this township

History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Roodhouse Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

No promissory note, check, draft, bill of exchange, order, or note, negO' liable instrument payable at sight, or on demand, or on presentment, shall be entitled to days of grace. All other bills of exchange, drafts or notes are entitled to three days of grace. All the above mentioned paper falling due on Sunday, Neiv Years' Day, the Fourth of July, Christmas, or anyday appointed or recommended by the President of the United States or the Governor of the State as a day of fast or thanksgiving, shall be deemed as due on the day previous, and should two or more of these days come together, then such instrument shall be treated as due on the day previous to the first of said days. No defense can be made against a negotiable instrument (^assigned before due') in the hands of the assignee without notice, except fraud ivas used in obtaining the same. To hold an indorser, due diligence must be used by suit, in collecting of the maker, unless suit would have been unavailing. Notes payable to person named or to order, in order to absolutely transfer title, must be indorsed by the payee. Notes payable to bearer may be transferred by delivery, and when so payable every indorser thereon is held as a guarantor of payment unless otherwise expressed.

Passage source: History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879.

Where a person shall conclude to remove his part of a division fence, and )et his land lie open, and having given the year's notice required, the adjoining owner may cause the value of said fence to be ascertained by fence-viawers as before provided, and on payment or tender of the amount of such valuation to the owner, it shall prevent the removal. A party removing a division fence without notice is liable for the damages accruing thereby.

When a tenant abandons or removes from the premises or any part thereof, the landlord, or his agent or attorney, may seize upon any grain or other crops grown or growing upon the premises, or part thereof so abandoned, whether the rent is due or not. If such grain, or other crops, or any part thereof, is not fully grown or matured, the landlord, or his agent or attorney, shall cause the same to be properly cultivated, harvested or gathered, and may sell the same, and from the proceeds pay all his labor, expenses and rent. The tenant may, before the sale of such property, redeem the same by tendering the rent and reasonable compensation for work done, or he may replevy the same.

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 Roodhouse Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barrow: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Little Sandy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Purington Clay Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Shafer Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrow in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 4 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2006	Tornado (F1)	Barrow	2 hurt	A second tornado formed 0.75 miles south of the Calhoun Green County tornado approximately 2.0 miles southwest of Barrow at 7:20 pm CST. This tornado initially damaged a few machine sheds and grain silos west of Highway 106 then traveled through the town of Barrow injuring 2 people, destroying two house trailers and damaging a number of homes in town. The second tornado continued to parallel the first tornado then dissipated near the intersection of County Roads 2550E and 2750N or 1.0 mile east northeast of Barrow. The damage width of this tornado was approximately 100 yards and total damage length was 3.5 miles. The damage associated with this tornado was rated F1. A witness in the town of barrow saw the first tornado and this one on the ground at the same time.
June 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Barrow	-	A brief, narrow tornado touched down in a field to the northwest of Roodhouse, IL on Saturday afternoon. A sheriff`s deputy reported that the tornado briefly touched down before lifting as the storm moved toward Manchester, IL. No damage was noted. The tornado was rated EFU with a path length of approximately 0.15 miles and a path width of 25 yards.
August 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Barrow	-	A tornado touched down just north of Barrow near Illinois Route 106 and travelled to the northeast crossing County Line Road east of the railroad tracks into Scott County (WFO Lincoln's CWA). Damage was confined to trees and rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
March 2006	Tornado (F1)	Barrow	-	The Calhoun Greene County supercell thunderstorm produced a third tornado about 0.25 mile north of the intersection of County Road 2700n and Highway 106, about 0.75 mile northwest of Barrow. This tornado was approximately 0.25 mile north of the first tornado damage track and also paralleled the first damage track. A home on a farmstead sustained minor damage while two machine sheds were destroyed. Three other machine sheds were destroyed by this tornado just south of the Greene Scott county line. The tornado then continued into Scott County. The total damage track was about 2 miles while the damage width was 75 yards. The damage associated with this tornado was F1 intensity.
July 1995	Hail	Barrow	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Roodhouse	2.2 miles	12
Patterson	4.7 miles	12
White Hall	4.8 miles	12
Hanks Station	4.9 miles	12
McClay Orchard	7.1 miles	12
Hillview	8.3 miles	12
Belltown	8.5 miles	12
Walkerville	9.6 miles	12

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 Barrow	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469141	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 422440. 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.

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.