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Crandall, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Morton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61550. The Survey maps it on the Washington quadrangle.

Crandall within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

4,654 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Morton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Charles R. Crandall, farmer, who lives on sec. 9 ; came to Tazewell Co. in 1830. He was born of New England parentage, John Crandall, his father, being from Massachusetts, while his mother, Mary (Croell) Crandall, was born in Connecticut. Charles was born Dec. 11, 1812, at Sheldon, Genesee Co., New York. Like most pioneer formers, Mr. C. began life without money or lands, and to day he is one of the wealthiest formers, owning a half section of land under a high state of cultivation and stocked with abundance of fine stock. All this is the result of industry and integrity of character, always indicative of a well rounded Christian life. He united his fortunes, Jan. 9, 1845, with Elizabeth Norris, of London, England. Their only son, John H., was born Jan. 9, 1846. Mr. Crandall embraced the Christian religion in 1850, when he joined the Baptist Church.

Passage source: History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Morton Township.

Fires near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Crandall between 2010 and 2014, burning about 32 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10207
23 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOLLETT
18 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesQUEEN
17 March 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesZEHR
15 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesNEHRING
11 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFRITZ
10 December 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWAGNER
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandall in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCrandall-Power lines were blown into tree branches.

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Mayfair1.8 miles15
Morton2.0 miles15
Cooper2.4 miles15
Gardena3.9 miles21
Caldwell4.5 miles21
Cloverdale4.5 miles21
Beverly Manor4.7 miles15
Farmdale4.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422589. 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.