Camp Grove, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Saratoga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61424. The Survey maps it on the Castleton quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Camp Grove within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1933 USGS Camp Grove quadrangle1:48000
1945 USGS Bradford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Castleton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Castleton quadrangle1:24000

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 Camp Grove: 1 past producer. 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
	Castleton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Grove in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2004	Tornado (F1)	Camp Grove	$250,000	The tornado crossed from Stark County into Marshall County four tenths of a mile northwest of Camp Grove. It initially blew down numerous trees and power lines until it reached the intersection of 1300N and 250E where it destroyed a shed and a pole barn which had farm equipment in it. The farm equipment was damaged with damage estimated around $250,000. It then continued moving northeast blowing a grain bin into a field, blew down more trees and power lines then crossed into Bureau County (WFO DVN county warning area) west of Whitefield. No injuries were reported.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Camp Grove	$150,000	Rainfall rates of an inch per hour for nearly four hours produced 3.00 to 5.00 of rain in western and central Marshall County. Flash flooding resulted in the closure of Illinois State Highway 17 in much of the county. Part of Illinois State Highway 26 about 6 miles north of Lacon washed out. Rural roads were impassable from Camp Grove to Hopewell to Varna. Mud and debris from cornfields had to be plowed to reopen some of the rural roads.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	$90,000	A large farm machine shed was destroyed and another out building was damaged, with the debris blown about 1/4 mile northeast.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	$50,000	A large shed was blown apart by damaging winds from an isolated thunderstorm. Debris was blown into nearby trees and power lines.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	$25,000	A swath of damaging thunderstorm winds cut through Marshall county. The winds blew down many trees and power lines across the county.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	-	Several large tree branches were blown down.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	-	Two large tree branches were blown down.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Camp Grove	-	Thunderstorms moving over the same areas multiple times resulted in 2.50 to 4.00 inches of rain in extreme western Marshall County during the early morning hours of June 24th. The main impact was the flooding of several rural roads, as well as State Highway 17 and 40 between Camp Grove and Lawn Ridge. Most of the flash flooding subsided by late morning.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	-	Tree limbs were blown down.
April 2001	Tornado (F0)	Camp Grove	-	Tornado touched down in open field for approximately 5 minutes. No damage was reported.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp Grove	-	Numerous trees were blown over onto Illinois Route 40, near Camp Grove. Numerous tree limbs were blown down countywide.
April 2006	Hail	Camp Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Saratoga Center	3.1 miles	11
Broadmoor	4.6 miles	12
Lawn Ridge	7.2 miles	21
Sparland	10.9 miles	17
Hopewell	11.4 miles	19
Lacon	12.3 miles	17
Henry	14.8 miles	17
Wilbern	18.8 miles	18

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 Camp Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687425	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 405471. 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.