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Clarksville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Money Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61753. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Clarksville within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

43,455 words on this township

The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois : Containing Two Hundred and Sixty-one Sketches of Old Settlers, a Complete Historical Sketch of the Black Hawk War and Descriptions of All Matters of Interest Relating to McLean County, published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Money Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Money Creek Township - 43,455 words.

Fires near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Clarksville between 2009 and 2014, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKELLER
28 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-105
1 June 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-88
4 May 2010Debris and open burning20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFREED
31 May 2014Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-87
22 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKEMP
30 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTUART
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLEX BROWN2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clarksville: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Freed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mohr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 hail, 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
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Clarksville-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field about 5 miles southwest of Gridley at 3:02PM CDT. The tornado quickly dissipated about one minute later with no damage being observed.
May 2014HailClarksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Timber Ridge2.8 miles14
Lexington3.5 miles14
Pleasant Hill6.0 miles11
Towanda6.6 miles15
Gridley6.6 miles14
Meadows6.9 miles14
Hudson8.0 miles15
Enright8.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422558. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.