BlockEberle, Illinois
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lucas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62424. The Survey maps it on the Eberle quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Sailor Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eberle quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eberle in 2010, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FITCH |
Storms near this place
1 since 2026Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eberle in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Eberle | $170,000 | A tornado developed just south of the Clay-Effingham county line, producing damage at a farmstead along the county line east of 1800th Street. At this location, metal from the top of a silo was blown off, and a barn was damaged with roof pieces blown off to the northeast for about a half mile. The tornado was in Clay County for less than a minute, before continuing northeast into Effingham County where it produced tracks through corn stubble in fields. It dissipated northwest of the intersection of East 200th Avenue and County Road 2200. This tornado had a maximum intensity of EF-0, and its total lifespan was 11 minutes. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Elliottstown | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Winterrowd | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Flemingsburg (historical) | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Watson | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Heartville | 8.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mason | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Dieterich | 9.2 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 407753. 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.