BlockFairland, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Murdock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61956. The Survey maps it on the Longview quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Longview quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Longview quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
10,468 words on this townshipHistorical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Murdock Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Fairland is a new and thriving village in the northwest part of the township. It contains several first-class stores, good church and school. The business men are mostly young men and are thoroughly in touch with the advance of the times. It has one bank, the Fairland E.xchange Bank, which was recently founded by John Quinn (see sketch).
Passage source: Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1900.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairland in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairland | - | The wall of a machine shed was blown down resulting in another wall and the roof to partially collapse. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villa Grove | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Murdock | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Camargo | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| West Ridge | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Patterson Springs | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Newman | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hugo | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hayes | 9.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 408176. 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.