BlockBreeds, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Orion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61520. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Banner quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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 Glasford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Banner quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
2,056 words on this townshipHistory of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Orion Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Orion Township - 2,056 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Breeds in 2018, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018235 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breeds in 1 storm report in 2019: 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 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Breeds | $85,000 | A tornado touched down in a wooded area of northeastern Fulton County 4.9 miles east-northeast of Canton at 8:22 PM CDT. The tornado tracked southeastward, doing damage to numerous trees as it crossed County Highway 27 near North Orion School Road. It did minor roof damage to several homes and a church, and downed additional trees and power poles before dissipating in an open field 3.8 miles north of Banner at 8:27 PM CDT. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Banner | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rawalts | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Village Square | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| East Lawndale | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Prospect Heights Addition | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Canton | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Brereton | 6.8 miles | 17 |
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 Breeds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4960301 | 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 404808. 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.