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Beverly Manor, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61571. The Survey maps it on the Washington quadrangle.

Beverly Manor within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

20,168 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 20,168 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Beverly Manor in 2013, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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
23 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOLLETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Beverly Manor: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay Pit No 3 Peoria Brick & TileClayProducer
Farmdale Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moushon Construction Co. Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moushon Construction Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peoria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly Manor in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBeverly Manor-The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager.
August 2022Flash FloodBeverly Manor-There was significant ponding of water on roadways throughout Washington.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBeverly Manor-A highway sign was blown down near the intersection of Boyd Parkway and McClugage Road.
August 2011HailBeverly Manor-Spotters reported nickel sized hail just west of Washington.

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Sunnyland2.2 miles21
Robein2.4 miles21
Harvard Hills2.4 miles15
Farmdale3.1 miles21
Washington3.2 miles15
Trailpark Gardens3.8 miles21
Fondulac Plaza Shopping Center4.0 miles21
Cooper4.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 404360. 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.