Garrison, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Crouch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62895. The Survey maps it on the Belle Prairie City quadrangle.

Garrison within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1942 USGS McLeansboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS McLeansboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Belle Prairie City quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Garrison between 2017 and 2020, burning about 1 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 burning	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2017018
17 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2020-03170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Garrison	$20,000	A downburst blew down multiple trees on County Rd 2400N west of County Rd 800E. The top of a grain bin was blown onto the roadway. Just to the east, part of a roof was blown off a machine shed in far northern Hamilton County along State Highway 242.
August 2016	Flood	Garrison	-	Two to four inches of water covered Route 242 in the northern portion of the county, about ten miles north of Mcleansboro.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Belle Prairie City	2.6 miles	10
Aden	3.3 miles	9
Piopolis	5.0 miles	10
Blairsville	6.2 miles	9
Jefferson City (historical)	7.4 miles	9
Bungay	7.6 miles	9
New London (historical)	8.2 miles	9
Delafield	8.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422731. 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.

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.