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Colusa, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dallas City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62358. The Survey maps it on the Colusa quadrangle. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Colusa within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Colusa in 2004, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Natural1

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
24 May 2004Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Colusa: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Dallas City QuarriesStonePast Producer
Biggsville Quarry Medusa Agg.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dallas City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dallas City Quarry Turner StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colusa in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindColusa-The roof of a grain bin was damaged and a tree was blown down with the root-ball exposed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColusa-A trained spotter reported power lines blown down near Colusa.
July 2010HailColusa-Quarter-sized hail fell about 1 mile east of Colusa, IL at 752 pm CDT July 19.
July 2017HailColusa-no account filed
July 2010HailColusa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Adrian3.5 miles15
Pontoosuc4.5 miles17
Dallas City4.5 miles17
Durham4.5 miles15
Burnside5.9 miles15
Powellton5.9 miles15
Ferris7.0 miles14
Niota7.1 miles15

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 ColusaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5150243The 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 406421. 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.