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Fandon, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Chalmers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62326. The Survey maps it on the Fandon quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Fandon within McDonough County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fandon in 2008, 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 February 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKIRBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonough County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fandon: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Colchester Brick & Tile Co.Clay PitClayPast Producer
Valentine Welch & Booz PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in McDonough County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fandon in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 10 hail, 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFandon-Measured by wind equipement.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFandon-A public report of a 70 MPH measured wind gust and small branches 1 inch in diameter were broken. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
March 2024HailFandon-Report received from mping.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFandon-A trained spotter reported a 65 MPH gust.
August 2022HailFandon-A trained spotter reports mostly nickel to quarter size hail, with a few larger stones.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindFandon-A trained spotter reports that 50 to 60 MPH thunderstorm wind gusts blew down some 3 inch diameter limbs. Hail also knocked quite a few leaves off of trees in the area.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFandon-Damaging winds downed six healthy trees.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Fandon-A high-end EF1 tornado uprooted and snapped large trees and destroyed outbuildings at two farmsteads, and snapped some power poles. The tornado was on the ground for about 5 minutes.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFandon-A trained spotter reported trees and power lines down.
May 2016HailFandon-Hail was reported up to the size of one inch in diameter.
April 2013HailFandon-Quarter sized hail fell 4 miles south of Colchester, IL at 245 pm CDT April 17.
April 2001HailFandon-Emergency management reported nickel sized hail.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindFandon-A trained spotter reported numerous large trees down near Fandon
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFandon-no account filed
March 2024HailFandon-no account filed
August 2022HailFandon-no account filed
July 2002HailFandon-no account filed
July 2002HailFandon-no account filed
May 1995HailFandon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonough 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
Colchester4.3 miles14
Tennessee5.1 miles14
Hills Grove (historical)6.0 miles14
Ragtown (historical)6.1 miles14
Georgetown6.8 miles20
Colmar7.1 miles14
Macomb7.9 miles20
East Village7.9 miles20

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 FandonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5433733The 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 408266. 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.

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.