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Eylar, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Saunemin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61764. The Survey maps it on the Saunemin quadrangle.

Eylar within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

467 words on this township

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Saunemin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Saunemin Township - 467 words.

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eylar in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2025HailEylar-A photo showed 3 inch diameter hail near the intersection of Route 47 and E 2100 N Road, north of Saunemin.
July 2015Flash FloodEylar-Numerous roads were flooded and impassable across portions of Livingston County.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Rugby2.0 miles13
Saunemin2.8 miles13
Scovel2.9 miles13
Swygert4.1 miles15
Loretto4.6 miles13
Griswold5.2 miles13
Emington6.4 miles13
Wing7.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422683. 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.

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.