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Dennison, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Wabash Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62423. The Survey maps it on the Dennison quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Dennison within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dennison between 2002 and 2005, burning about 17 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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
18 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 March 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 December 2002Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 January 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dennison: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Beacon Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dennison in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDennison$12,000A large tree was blown onto a car.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDennison-A large sycamore tree limb was blown down.
May 2009Flash FloodDennison-Heavy rainfall of 3 to 4 inches within 2 hours produced widespread flash flooding in much of Clark County. Most county roads covered with water and a few were closed to traffic.
July 2017HailDennison-no account filed
March 2012HailDennison-no account filed
July 1996HailDennison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
McKeen0.9 miles19
Patton2.4 miles19
Farrington2.8 miles19
Weaver3.0 miles19
Griffin (historical)3.2 miles15
Livingston4.5 miles15
Golf Lakes5.4 miles15
Fox Run6.0 miles15

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 DennisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5259115The 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 407130. 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.