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Gallagher, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Decker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62868. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Noble quadrangle.

Gallagher within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallagher in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGallagher$12,000Trees were blown down in Wynoose.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGallagher-Trees and power lines were blown down across the roadway near 700 North and 700 East.
June 2023HailGallagher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Fransonia (historical)0.9 miles10
Elbow2.5 miles10
Wynoose3.8 miles10
Seminary4.1 miles10
Schnell4.4 miles10
Noble5.3 miles10
Watertown (historical)6.5 miles10
Parkersburg6.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422725. 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.

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.