BlockChesterville, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bourbon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61911. The Survey maps it on the Arthur quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1935 USGS Arcola quadrangle1:48000
- 1935 USGS Arcola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Arcola quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Arthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Arthur quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,730 words on this townshipHistory of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 names this settlement in its chapter on Bourbon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Bourbon has a two-story brick school house, which was built about 1S57, and is therefore, probably, the first brick built in the county. There is also a neat Baptist Church lately erected by the influence and means of citizens yet remaining. The place, however, has about lost the character of a village, there being at present neither a store or post office, the nearest being at Chesterville on 'the I. M.
Passage source: History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesterville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2020 | Flood | Chesterville | - | Weather observers measured 4 to 5 inches of rain across Douglas County...including 4.24 in Tuscola. Numerous creeks and streams flowed out of their banks, flooding low-lying spots across the county. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Chesterville | - | Multiple roads were closed due to high water across southern Douglas County, particularly around the Arthur area. |
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.
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 Chesterville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5093874 | 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 406032. 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.