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Funks Grove, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Funks Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61754. The Survey maps it on the Funks Grove quadrangle.

Funks Grove within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

9,363 words on this township

The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois : Containing Two Hundred and Sixty-one Sketches of Old Settlers, a Complete Historical Sketch of the Black Hawk War and Descriptions of All Matters of Interest Relating to McLean County, published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Funks Grove Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Funks Grove Township - 9,363 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Funks Grove between 2012 and 2014, burning about 3 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/undetermined2
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
17 March 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAST
18 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOUGHAM
17 January 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Funks Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Probasco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Funks Grove in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFunks Grove-Several tree limbs, larger than three inches in diameter, were broken.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFunks Grove-Several large trees were blown down, blocking roads in Funks Grove.
July 2021FloodFunks Grove-Numerous roads were closed across southern McLean County due to flooding. The closures included: County Highway 29 1.5 miles south of Downs, County Road 21 1 mile north of Leroy, and the Leroy-Lexington Blacktop between 800 North and 500 North.
April 2003HailFunks Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Shirley4.1 miles13
McLean4.5 miles13
Covell5.5 miles13
Randolph7.2 miles14
Stanford7.4 miles14
Burns7.6 miles14
Hendrix8.2 miles14
Heyworth8.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422723. 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.