BlockCottonwood, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Asbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62871. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 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.
- 1905 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Cottonwood | $110,000 | An EF-1 tornado impacted far northeast Gallatin County, IL during the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 2nd. The tornado began in the Cottonwood community along Noel Road. Here, several large trees were uprooted, one crushing a small brick building. One manufactured home was severely damaged and a nearby outbuilding had a part of its roof removed. Moving eastward the tornado did mainly tree damage as it passed south of the community of New Haven. The tornado crossed the Wabash River into Posey County, IN, just south of the confluence of the Little Wabash and Wabash Rivers. Estimated peak winds for this tornado path as a whole and for Gallatin County were 100 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $40,000 | Several power poles were downed off Highway 141 west of New Haven. Widespread crop damage from wind and some hail was observed across eastern parts of Gallatin County between Highway 1 and the Ohio River. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $20,000 | Significant tree damage occurred in New Haven as evening storms moved through Gallatin County. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $1,000 | Tree limbs were downed along IL-141 near New Haven as a thunderstorm moved southeastward across Gallatin County. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | Quarter-size hail occurred in New Haven. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | 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.
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 Cottonwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5175784 | 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 406627. 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.