BlockBrowning, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Browning Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62624. It stands on Dutchmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Astoria quadrangle. 117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrowning fell from 137 to 117 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 137 | |
| 2020 | 117 | -20 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1926 USGS Beardstown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Beardstown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Astoria quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Browning: 2 past producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leland Jacobs Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sheldon Grove Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browning in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browning | $25,000 | Several power lines were knocked down in the town of Browning. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browning | $24,000 | A few trees were blown down north of Browning. Crops were knocked down near Bader. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browning | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Browning. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browning | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bader | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sheldons Grove | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Frederick | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Pleasant View | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Ray | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bluff City | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Rushville | 10.1 miles | 15 | |
| Oakland Center | 10.2 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 Browning | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2579620 | 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 404967. 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.