BlockBurnt Prairie, Illinois
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mill Shoals Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62820. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Prairie quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 446 feet above sea level.
On record in Burnt Prairie
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Old Morrison Milllisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresBurnt Prairie fell from 52 to 36 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 | 52 | |
| 2020 | 36 | -16 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1948 USGS Fairfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Burnt Prairie quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Prairie in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Flood | Burnt Prairie | $300,000 | Many rural and county roads were flooded. U.S. Highway 45 was closed north of Enfield. A vehicle became stranded in floodwaters west of Grayville. The driver was rescued by emergency personnel. Illinois Route 1 in Crossville was closed for a few hours. In Omaha, a fertilizer and agrichemical warehouse was flooded with four feet of water. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnt Prairie | $20,000 | A tractor-trailer rig was overturned along Interstate 64. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnt Prairie | $1,000 | Tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds as a storm line moved along the I-64 corridor. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Burnt Prairie | - | Reported at the Burnt Prairie exit on Interstate 64. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Burnt Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Burnt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Shoals | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| McIntosh Settlement (historical) | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Centerville | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Springer Station | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Springerton | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Enfield | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bingman Station | 11.7 miles | 9 | |
| Crossville | 12.1 miles | 9 |
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 Burnt Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671650 | 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 405254. 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.