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Fogarty, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Broadwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62634. It stands on Lake Fork. The Survey maps it on the Broadwell quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Fogarty within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

13,768 words on this township

History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Broadwell Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

cember 15, 1830, a son of John and Bridget Fogarty. His parents came to America with their four sons, Michael, Patrick, William and John, landing at New York City, May 28, 1852. The parents settled in Orange County, New York, on a farm near Newburgh, and there they lived till their death. Their son John died at Memphis, Tennessee, two years after coming to this country, Michael died soon after his marriage at Newburgh, Patrick dying the same year, leaving a widow and five children. William Fogarty lived with his parents till he came to Logan County, and was employed iu helping the farmers in his neighborhood. He was married January 19, 1856, to Bridget Hickey, born the same year, and a native of the same county as her husband. Shortly after his marriage he came to Logan County, reaching Lincoln, March 21, 1866. After working a few months for Samuel Wilson he bought a team and commenced breaking prairie land for other parties. In 1857 he bought forty acres of land in Sheridan Township, and made his home there for twenty-two years, adding to his first purchase from time to time till he owned 465 acres. He sold his property in Sheridan Township, and March 1, 1879, he moved to section 23, Broadwell Township, buying the Braucher estate, which contained 470 acres. Mr. Fogarty had a small capital of about $250 when he came to Logan County. He was met with great success in all his undertakings, and by industry, combined with good management, he has become one of the most substantial farmers of Broadwell Township. He has added 247 acres to his first purchase in this township, and now has one of the best improved farms in his neighborhood, with good farm buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Fogarty have had six children born to them - Mary Ellen, died, aged two and a half years; Bridget, wife of John Kyan, of Tazewell Connty; John, died, aged ten months; Kate, died, aged nine months; Willie and Julia, still reside with their parents. In politics Mr. Fogarty is identified with the Democratic praty.

Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Broadwell Township.

Fires near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fogarty between 2008 and 2020, burning about 95 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/undetermined9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180462
21 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesNO NAME
18 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGRASS
1 June 2018Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180354
7 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesST RT 121
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLIN RUL1
15 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1700
4 March 2018Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180162

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fogarty: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Logan County PitStonePast Producer
Broadwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heinzel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Lincoln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lincoln Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fogarty in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFogarty$150,000Twenty power poles were snapped along 1350th Street near the entrance to the Logan Correctional Center.
July 2021Heavy RainFogarty-As a result of heavy rainfall, a vehicle skidded off the northbound lane of I-55 south of Lincoln in Logan County and was struck by a semi travelling in the southbound lane at about 10:11pm CDT. Four of the five passengers in the vehicle were killed, while the other passenger sustained critical injuries.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Broadwell2.2 miles14
Lincoln4.8 miles14
Chestervale5.2 miles14
Elkhart6.0 miles14
Burton View6.3 miles15
Bell7.0 miles15
Mount Fulcher8.6 miles17
Middletown9.1 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q5464068The 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 1720852. 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.