Block, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Sidney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61877. The Survey maps it on the Longview quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Block within Champaign County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Longview quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Longview quadrangle1:24000

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Block in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2016	Tornado (EF2)	Block	$800,000	A tornado touched down in a field 3.6 miles south of Sidney at 6:31pm CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward for more than two miles damaging corn and soybean crops before destroying a garage and a large shed. A car and large RV were also damaged. A barn was destroyed less than one mile away before the tornado moved into a cemetery, where it damaged several headstones and two trees. The most extensive damage occurred at a farmstead further northeast, where three outbuildings were destroyed and a house was pushed off its foundation causing it to collapse. The tornado then dissipated in a field 2.5 miles south of Homer at 6:50pm CDT.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Block	$50,000	Ten train cars were derailed by strong winds about 3 miles south of Sidney.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Block	$45,000	A shed was damaged at 600N and 2200E. The roof was torn off a shed and gutters were blown off a house near 600N and 2300E.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Block	$20,000	A few trees were blown down and a grain bin and surrounding crops were damaged.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Block	$20,000	A house sustained roof damage near 600N and 2245E.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Block	-	A microburst, with wind speeds estimated at 80 mph, flattened about 100 acres of corn in southern Champaign County about 4.5 miles east-southeast of Philo. Most of the corn will be able to be harvested, with about 15% destroyed.

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Bongard	3.7 miles	11
Sidney	4.0 miles	19
Rutherford	4.3 miles	19
Philo	4.7 miles	24
Longview	5.7 miles	11
Deers	6.3 miles	19
Broadlands	6.4 miles	14
Tipton	7.5 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q4927113

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 422474. 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.

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.