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Camp Travis, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62824. The Survey maps it on the Clay City quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Camp Travis within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Travis in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Camp Travis$20,000The tornado initially touched down in the National Weather Service Paducah County Warning Area (CWA) in Wayne County at 11:58 AM CST. It then tracked northeastward and crossed into southern Clay County at 12:03 PM CST. The tornado quickly dissipated by 12:04 PM CST 7.3 miles southeast of Clay City. One home experienced minor damage and numerous trees were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCamp Travis$15,000Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCamp Travis-Trees limbs were blown down. A high-line power pole was blown over. Satellite dishes were blown off homes.
August 2021Flash FloodCamp Travis-Big Four Road north of Angling Road was flooded.
June 2018Flash FloodCamp Travis-Heavy rainfall amounts of 3.00 to 5.00 inches during the late evening of June 11th resulted in flash flooding in southeast Clay County. Numerous county roads were impassable southeast of Clay City. Wilcox Bridge Lane was closed due to the flooding. The flooding subsided shortly after Midnight.
June 2018HailCamp Travis-no account filed
June 2018HailCamp Travis-no account filed
June 2018HailCamp Travis-no account filed
May 2012HailCamp Travis-no account filed
May 2012HailCamp Travis-no account filed
March 2012HailCamp Travis-no account filed
June 2008HailCamp Travis-no account filed
June 2008HailCamp Travis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Maysville1.7 miles11
Clay City2.3 miles11
Sailor Springs7.4 miles9
Flora8.2 miles10
Hoosier11.9 miles9
Louisville11.9 miles9
Ingraham12.2 miles9
Wendelin12.4 miles9

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 TravisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5027643The 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 405507. 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.