BlockBluff City, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hickory Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62624. The Survey maps it on the Bath quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1930 USGS Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Chandlerville NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Bath quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bluff City in 2008, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bluff City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheldon Grove Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluff City in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 2 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Bluff City | $260,000 | A tornado touched down in an open field 1.9 miles southwest of Bluff City at 3:51 PM CST. The tornado tracked northeastward and damaged a couple of outbuildings before knocking a home off its foundation and doing tree damage in Bluff City along Highway 100. It then crossed from Schuyler County into far southern Fulton County at 3:55 PM CST. |
| April 2013 | Flood | Bluff City | $100,000 | No homes were damaged by record levels of flooding on the Illinois River. However, thousands of acres of agricultural land and several roads adjacent to the river were damaged. The river stage at Beardstown climbed to a record level of 29.81 feet on April 27th at 01:25 local time, which was nearly 16 feet above flood stage. High impact flooding continued into the month of May 2013. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Bluff City | - | High impact flooding on the Illinois River continued from April. No homes were damaged by record levels of flooding on the Illinois River. However, thousands of acres of agricultural land and several roads adjacent to the river were damaged. High impact flooding subsided when the river level at Beardstown fell below a stage of 18 feet on May 22nd. Damage estimates were reported in the April Storm Data for this event. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheldons Grove | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bader | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Browning | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Frederick | 13.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ray | 13.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant View | 13.5 miles | 16 | |
| Oakland Center | 15.2 miles | 15 | |
| Rushville | 18.1 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 Bluff City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4930634 | 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 404616. 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.