Boos, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62448. The Survey maps it on the Sainte Marie quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Boos within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1941 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ste Marie quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boos: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
	Jasper Cty Hwy Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boos in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Boos	1 hurt, $10,000	A semi-trailer was blown over about 7 miles south of Newton, injuring the driver.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Boos	$345,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across southeast Jasper County. Several houses had shingles blown off of them and a front porch was destroyed on one home. A hog farm reported extensive roof damage to 4 of its hog confinement buildings, with estimated repair costs of around $150,000. In addition, two barns were destroyed and a few farms had minor grain bin damage.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Sainte Marie	4.6 miles	10
Shamrock	4.9 miles	10
Newton	5.0 miles	10
West Liberty	5.5 miles	10
Willow Hill	6.5 miles	10
Bogota	6.9 miles	10
Raeftown	7.6 miles	10
Brookville	7.9 miles	13

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 Boos	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4943779	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 422487. 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.