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Bible Grove, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bible Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62858. The Survey maps it on the Louisville East quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Bible Grove within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Bible Grove between 2009 and 2013, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFITCH
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources27
18 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMEDLEY
10 March 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOYT
10 March 2010Smoking3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDULANEY
8 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOEHLER
7 October 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWILEY
17 October 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSCOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bible Grove in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBible Grove$15,000Trees, power poles and power lines were blown down.|
February 2026Tornado (EF0)Bible Grove$5,000A tornado developed just south of the Clay-Effingham county line, producing damage at a farmstead along the county line east of 1800th Street. At this location, metal from the top of a silo was blown off, and a barn was damaged with roof pieces blown off to the northeast for about a half mile. The tornado was in Clay County for less than a minute, before continuing northeast into Effingham County. This tornado had a maximum intensity of EF-0, and its total duration was 11 minutes.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBible Grove$3,000Six power poles were blown down west of Bible Grove.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBible Grove-Power poles were blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBible Grove-A few trees were blown down near Bible Grove.
June 2015Flash FloodBible Grove-Several periods of rainfall occurred as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill. Rainfall totals ranged from 2.50 to 5.00 on already saturated ground which was flooded from previous thunderstorms 8 hours earlier. Rural roads were impassable and creeks flooded out of their banks from west of Louisville through Sailor Springs to the Richland County line. Parts of U.S. Highway 45 near Louisville were closed due to high water.
June 2015FloodBible Grove-Several periods of rainfall occurred as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill. Rainfall totals ranged from 2.50 to 5.00 on already saturated ground which was flooded from previous thunderstorms 8 hours earlier. Rural roads were impassable and creeks flooded out of their banks from west of Louisville through Sailor Springs to the Richland County line. Parts of U.S. Highway 45 near Louisville were closed due to high water. The periods of rainfall persisted through the rest of June 19th and into June 20th. This caused roadways and creeks to remain flooded. The flooding subsided by the morning of June 20th.
September 2014Flash FloodBible Grove-Heavy downpours which produced 2 to 3 inches of rain per hour between 2200-0000 local time resulted in flash flooding across the northern half of Clay County. Numerous rural roads were impassable, streets were flooded in the town of Hord, and parts of U.S. Highway 45 from the Effingham County line to about Louisville were closed. The flooding subsided within three hours.
July 2013Flash FloodBible Grove-Periods of heavy rain on already saturated ground produced flash flooding in a large part of Clay County. Observers reported 3.00 to 5.00 inches of rain during the morning. This resulted in the flash flooding of many rural roads and low water crossings. The heaviest rainfall was reported between the village of Sailor Springs and the Richland County line.
June 2013Flash FloodBible Grove-Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in a two hour period during the late afternoon in Clay County. Many rural roads and creeks, particularly from Bible Grove to Ingraham to Louisville, were flooded due to the heavy rain. The flooding quickly subsided by late evening.
June 2011Flash FloodBible Grove-Thunderstorms during the late evening hours produced 2.50 to 5.00 of rain on extremely saturated ground and in locations which experienced flash flooding the previous week. This resulted in rapid flash flooding of creeks and roads across almost all of Clay County. Streets in Flora, Clay City and Louisville were flooded and U.S. Highways 45 and 50 had standing water in spots. Nearly all rural roads were flooded and closed due to the flooding.
May 2004HailBible Grove-no account filed
November 2002HailBible Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Hord4.1 miles9
Hoosier4.7 miles9
Ingraham6.4 miles9
Louisville7.5 miles9
Riffle7.8 miles9
Sailor Springs8.7 miles9
Wendelin9.6 miles9
Iola10.0 miles9

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 Bible GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4903088The 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 404371. 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.

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.