BlockDareville, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Elk Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62816. The Survey maps it on the Ina quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1939 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Ina quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Ina quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,518 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Elk Prairie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Elk Prairie Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dareville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILLER |
| 4 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-03045 |
| 19 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-3198 |
| 18 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-01385 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dareville in 2 storm reports in 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Dareville | - | Rapid rises in water levels on the Rayse Creek at Waltonville reached 17.46ft at 1945CST, just over 3.5ft above the previous record. Torrential rainfall during the morning in western Jefferson County and areas upstream resulted in flash flooding issues through the day, with a transition to flood conditions into the night. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Dareville | - | Water levels crested during the evening on the 16th on Rayse Creek, with flooding issues continuing through the night as waters remained above the previous record. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nason | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Waltonville | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bonnie | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Fitzgerrell (historical) | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Marcoe | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Williamsburg | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Ina | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Emerson City | 5.5 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 406951. 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.