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Cornerville, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It lies in ZIP code area 62935. The Survey maps it on the Walpole quadrangle.

Cornerville within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cornerville in 2009, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA4
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesAMERICAN
4 March 2009Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOTTON
23 February 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHERREN
21 January 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFARLEY
1 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornerville in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Flash FloodCornerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
University2.2 miles19
Rural Hill4.0 miles18
Walpole4.2 miles19
West Rural Hill5.3 miles18
Tuckers Corners6.0 miles19
Braden6.2 miles19
Olga6.3 miles19
Broughton8.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422581. 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.

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.