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Daysville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oregon-Nashua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61061. It stands on Kyte River. The Survey maps it on the Daysville quadrangle.

Daysville within Ogle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Daysville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 53 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 burning4

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
6 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROADWAY
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0297
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0327
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0323
20 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0317
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLILLIE
30 March 2010Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBENDIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogle County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Daysville: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Oregon Quarry & PlantSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer
R. Little QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Saint Clair Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Sanner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
W. Karper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogle County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daysville in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2026Funnel CloudDaysville-A heavy thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud over Ogle County as it tracked from south of Oregon northeast toward Davis Junction.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDaysville-Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were broken.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDaysville-A large hardwood tree was blown down along Daysville Road with numerous tree limbs snapped on nearby trees. About three quarters of a mile north on Daysville Road, a large hardwood tree was blown down onto a residential fence, which was heavily damaged.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDaysville-Trees were blown down near Castle Rock State Park in the Brooks Island Area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDaysville-Large healthy trees were blown down along Route 2, roughly three miles south of Oregon.
May 2014HailDaysville-no account filed
August 2011HailDaysville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ogle 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
Watertown1.3 miles12
Honey Creek2.1 miles12
Oregon2.2 miles14
Carthage4.5 miles12
Chana5.2 miles10
Lost Nation5.7 miles12
Paynes Point6.5 miles15
Mount Morris7.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 407004. 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.