BlockFancy Prairie, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fancy Prairie No. 3 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62613. The Survey maps it on the Williamsville quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1907 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1940 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Williamsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fancy Prairie between 2002 and 2010, burning about 87 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10209 |
| 14 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10107 |
| 1 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1098 |
| 9 December 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 December 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 December 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 October 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fancy Prairie in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Prairie | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Fancy Prairie | - | This tornado crossed the Sangamon/Menard County line into far southeastern Menard County about 1.5 miles south-southeast of Fancy Prairie at 12:20 AM CDT. It continued northeastward and crossed into southwestern Logan County at 12:21 AM CDT. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Fancy Prairie | - | Rainfall amounts of 2.00 to 3.00, on top of waterlogged ground, were reported during the evening of June 28th. This resulted in the flooding of rural roads from Culver to Fancy Prairie in southeast Menard County. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Fancy Prairie | - | Around 1.50 to 2.25 of rain fell between 0845 and 1000 CST on top of already saturated ground. This produced rapid flash flooding in northern Menard County. |Many rural roads from north of Petersburg to Oakford to Greenview were impassable due to the flash flooding. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fancy Prairie | - | no account filed |
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 Fancy Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5433702 | 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 408265. 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.