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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1926 USGS Normal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Normal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
43,455 words on this townshipThe 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 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KELLER |
| 28 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-105 |
| 1 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-88 |
| 4 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FREED |
| 31 May 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-87 |
| 22 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KEMP |
| 30 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | STUART |
| 22 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LEX BROWN2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Tornado (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 2014 | Hail | Clarksville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timber Ridge | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Lexington | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Towanda | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gridley | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Meadows | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Hudson | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Enright | 8.8 miles | 14 |
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.







