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Dana, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61321. The Survey maps it on the Dana quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Dana within LaSalle County

Population over time

2 figures

Dana grew from 159 to 162 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010159
2020162+3 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

964 words on this township

History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Groveland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

ried Orvilla Kenyon, and has seven children. He was a good soldier, and is Police Magistrate in the village of Dana, The third was Lewis W. Martin, from Indiana ; he made an improvement on Sec. 10; sold to Alva Winans and went to Nebraska, Geo. W. Gray located and lives on &. 11 in 1856, and raised a large family, The fifth settler was William Martin; he pre-empted the northeast quarter Section 25th. An Englishman by birth, he enlisted in the 334 Regiment, and died on his way home from the army; 2 bachelor, he left no relatives but a sister, Mrs. Avna Swift of Bloomington. Nelson Cooper, from Maryland, a carpenter by trade, settled on 8. 17. He enlisted in the 104th Regiment. His wife was Sarah M. Jacobson, daughter of John Jacobson. He is the present Supervisor of the town. John Jacobson, from Germany to Ohio, was a magistrate there; was Supervisor here for several years, and moved to Nebraska in 1869.

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

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 Groveland Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dana between 2010 and 2014, burning about 10 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
Debris and open burning1
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
1 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWEEKS
6 October 2014Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400174

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dana in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 3 hail, 3 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 2010Thunderstorm WindDana$1,000Utility poles were blown down blocking N 2nd Road near E 10th Street.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindDana$1,000A traffic signal was blown down on 11th street.
June 1995HailDana-Storms produced grape-size hail and winds blew down a metal building.
April 2006HailDana-no account filed
May 2004HailDana-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaSalle 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
Leeds4.8 miles11
Rutland5.2 miles12
Garfield8.8 miles11
Streator12.8 miles11
Milla12.8 miles11
Altmar13.1 miles11
Kangley13.6 miles11
Delbert Egan Housing Project13.8 miles11

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 DanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155849The 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 406937. 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.