BlockElva, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Afton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60115. The Survey maps it on the Waterman quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1934 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Waterman quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Waterman quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,532 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County : Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States : Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Afton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In reference to the part performed by this township in the War of the Rebellion, Boies remarks : " Afton manfully did its part in the war. Eightyone men went from that thinly populated township to fill the ranks of the Union Army. Its total population by the census of 1860 was but 516. Fiftynine men had volunteered when the necessity of the Government called for more men, and seven more, were procured. In the summer of 1864 an additional tax.was voted upon the township, amounting in all to $14,000, and 15 .more recruits were enlisted. Among those who gave their lives in defense of their country were Charles Elliott, Dempster Wheeler, Alexander Campbell, Emerson T. Knight, Lewis Olverson and L. De Forest."
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elva: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mica Pellets Inc. Plant | Perlite, Vermiculite | Producer | ||
| Mica Pellets Inc. Vermiculite Plant | Vermiculite | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elva in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elva | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
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.
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 Elva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5367970 | The 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 421786. 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.
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.