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Fruitland, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2000. It stands in South Moline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61265. It stands on Case Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle.

Fruitland within Rock Island County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 2006 and 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined17
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2

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
23 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR2
11 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION
16 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMM15
11 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAST
5 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN
31 July 2010Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN3
30 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTOBIAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fruitland: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Allied Stone Plant #30Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Bettendorf Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Milan Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Island City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
U. S. Army EngineersStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rock Island County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitland in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
January 2017FloodFruitland$15,000Seasonably heavy rainfall upstream combined with a rare ice jam that impacted the river for several days. Major flood conditions resulted for a small segment of the Rock River at Moline for less than 12 hours. Local reports indicate ice and water impacted some local roads and numerous homes and structures near the Rock River.||Some water damage was reported to some homes.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFruitland-Large tree blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFruitland-A 5 inch diameter tree branch was blown down. The time was based on radar data.
April 2023Tornado (EF1)Fruitland-A brief EF1 tornado caused damage to trees and roofs across its 1.6 mile long path. Eyewitness reports of the tornado and debris aided in the identification of this tornado.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindFruitland-Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew a tree down near the Toys R Us store about 1 mile north of the Quad City Airport in Moline, IL around 1014 pm CDT September 5.
June 2009HailFruitland-One and a half inch diameter hail fell at the Wal-Mart in Moline, IL around 1232 pm June 18.
June 2009HailFruitland-Quarter-sized hail fell at the intersection of John Deere Road and 41st Street in Rock Island, IL at 1231 pm on June 18.
April 2026HailFruitland-no account filed
February 2024HailFruitland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock Island 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
Bridgeway Addition0.7 miles23
Moline2.4 miles20
Milan3.2 miles23
Poplar Grove3.3 miles14
Ginger Hill3.5 miles23
Coal Valley4.2 miles14
Rock Island4.2 miles20
East Moline4.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 408782. 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.