BlockBlackstone, Illinois
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sunbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61313. The Survey maps it on the Blackstone quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Odell quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blackstone in 2010, burning about 2 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 11210 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackstone in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Blackstone | $85,000 | A small tornado caused $75 thousand in damage to conveyors, roofs, and tanks at one business and caused $8 thousand in damage to a roof of an office building at the Hicksgas plant. A barn and trees were also damaged in the area. Several people witnessed a funnel cloud just before the wind hit. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Blackstone | - | One foot of water was reported on Route 17 near Route 18. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Blackstone | - | Reported at the intersection of Routes 170 and 17. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blackstone | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Blackstone | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Blackstone | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Blackstone | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katy Did | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Missal | 2.9 miles | 8 | |
| New Michigan (historical) | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Budd | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Smithdale | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Manville | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Adams (historical) | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Cornell | 6.8 miles | 15 |
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 Blackstone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4923383 | 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 404529. 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.