BlockBuffalo Prairie, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Buffalo Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61237. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Prairie quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1916 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1938 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Buffalo Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Buffalo Prairie quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo Prairie in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Hail | Buffalo Prairie | - | Dime to quarter size hail reported. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Buffalo Prairie | - | The Mississippi River at Muscatine (MUSI4) rose above its major flood stage of 20 feet during the early morning of May 28th and continued into June. The river crested in June, with the stage rising to 24.0 feet at the end of May 31st. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Buffalo Prairie | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois City | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Edgington | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Reynolds | 9.8 miles | 18 | |
| Andalusia | 10.1 miles | 19 | |
| Taylor Ridge | 10.4 miles | 19 | |
| Castle Junction | 15.1 miles | 23 | |
| Oak Grove | 15.9 miles | 23 | |
| Coyne Center | 16.3 miles | 23 |
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 Buffalo Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4985812 | 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 405163. 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.