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Birmingham, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Birmingham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62367. It stands on Flour Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fandon quadrangle.

Birmingham within Schuyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Birmingham: 2 occurrences. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 7 flash flood, 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
April 2017FloodBirmingham-Rain amounts of 2.50 to 3.50 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Schuyler County. Numerous streets in Rushville were impassable, as were numerous rural roads in the county west of U.S. Highway 67. Additional rain of 0.50 to 1.00 inch during the early morning hours kept many roads flooded. Flood waters subsided by mid-morning on the 30th.
April 2017Flash FloodBirmingham-Rain amounts of 2.50 to 3.50 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Schuyler County. Numerous streets in Rushville were impassable, as were numerous rural roads in the county west of U.S. Highway 67.
June 2015Flash FloodBirmingham-Thunderstorms produced 3.00 to 6.00 of rain on extremely saturated ground in a large part of Schuyler County, mainly west and north of Rushville, during the evening of June 15th. The biggest impact was the flooding of rural roads east of U.S. Highway 67. Parts of U.S. Highway 67 were also closed from north of Rushville to Littleton. Illinois Routes 99 and 101 were also impassable at times during the late evening.
September 2014Flash FloodBirmingham-A second round of very heavy rain in less than 24 hours resulted in renewed flash flooding in much of Schuyler County during the morning hours of September 10th. An additional 3.00 to 4.00 inches of rain was reported in less than three hours. Due to the saturated ground, flash flooding developed quickly. Nearly all rural roads in the county were impassable. Most streets in Rushville flooded, as did Illinois Route 67 from Rushville to Littleton. Parts of Illinois Route 101 near the LaMoine River and the town of Brooklyn were closed. The flooding subsided around midday.
June 2011Flash FloodBirmingham-Thunderstorms during the late evening hours produced 2.00 to 4.00 of rain on extremely saturated ground. This resulted in rapid flash flooding of creeks and roads across almost all of Schuyler County. Streets in Rushville were flooded and U.S. Highways 67 and 24 had standing water in spots. Nearly all rural roads were flooded and closed due to the flooding.
June 2010Flash FloodBirmingham-Heavy rain, with accumulations of 1.50 to 2.00 in an hour, resulted in extensive flash flooding of numerous rural roads in nearly all of the county. Several small bridgesand culverts were closed to traffic due to water flowing over them from nearby creeks and drainage ditches.
May 2009Flash FloodBirmingham-Heavy rain of 3.00 to 5.00 inches within 3 hours in northern Schuyler County produced widespread flash flooding of most roads.
May 2009Flash FloodBirmingham-Heavy rain of 2.00 to 4.00 inches in two to three hours resulted in widespread flash flooding in northern Schuyler County. The heavy rain caused nearly every road in rural areas to be impassible. A large portion of Illinois Route 101 was closed to traffic.

Every storm recorded in Schuyler 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
Brooklyn4.0 miles14
Huntsville5.5 miles14
Wayland7.3 miles14
Camden8.1 miles14
Mindale8.5 miles14
Littleton10.7 miles15
Erwin10.9 miles14
Hale Ridge (historical)10.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422466. 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.