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Dalzell, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61320. The Survey maps it on the Spring Valley quadrangle.

Dalzell within Bureau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

1,560 words on this township

Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Hall Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The township of Hall in 1880 had a population of 1058. Twenty years later, in 1900, it had a population of 9844. and it has greatly increased since then. Its principal industry is mining. \Mthin the boundaries of Hall township may be found the city of Spring Yalle}', corporations of Ladd. Marquette, Dalzell, Seatonville and Cherry. All of these towns are given over to coal mining. \'ast shipments of coal are sent to different parts of the country. The facilities for shipping are very superior, as it has several lines of railroad Ijcsides having a frontage on the Illinois river. The population embraces nearly every^ nationality on the globe. Southern Europe is largely represented. The first settler was Eeason Hall, who located on section 34 in 1828. In 1833 Henry J. Miller built on section 33 and William Miller on section 36. The same year Edward Hall settled on section 39 and William Swan on section 19. J. Whitehead. Eobert Scott, A. Wixani, Alexander Holbrook and Martin Tompkins were among the early arrivals. Daniel Webster early owned a tract of land in Hall township, which was afterward owned by his son. Calvin Combs, Samuel J. Williams and Moses Tichner came previous to 1840. One of the iinest geological collections in the state is that of James Murray, who was born in Scotland in 1820 but has lived in Hall for many years. This collection has been gathered with great care and has attracted the attention of the geologists from all parts of the country. The population in 1900 was, including Spring Valley, Ladd and Seatonville, 9844, of which Spring Valley had, in the first ward, 704; second ward, 968; third ward, 639; fourth ward, 2474, and fifth ward, 1439; total in Spring Valley, 6214; Ladd, 1324; Seatonville, 909. The supervisors have been as follows :

Passage source: Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906.

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 Hall Township.

Fires near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Dalzell between 2010 and 2015, burning about 232 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
10 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000049
17 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000065
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000051
1 May 2013Smoking5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTAND3
5 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000044
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000035
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000034
31 March 2014Debris and open burning200 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bureau County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dalzell: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lasalle City PitStonePast Producer
Bonucci Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bonucci Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sitterly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalzell in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2022LightningDalzell1 hurtLightning struck a home in Dalzell, resulting in a fire and a minor injury to a person inside the home.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDalzell-Trees and power lines were blown down. The time was estimated from radar data.
April 2011HailDalzell-Golf ball sized hail fell about 1 mile northwest of Dalzell, IL on Interstate 80 near mile marker 72 at 1028 pm CDT April 3.
June 1999HailDalzell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
Hegeler1.1 miles19
Churchill2.1 miles19
Webster Park2.3 miles19
Spring Valley2.4 miles19
Ladd2.8 miles19
Hicks Corners3.0 miles19
Ottville4.4 miles13
Marquette4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 406934. 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.