BlockGingle Corners, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Perryton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61231. The Survey maps it on the Reynolds quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Reynolds quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Reynolds quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
61,416 words on this townshipHistory of Mercer County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc., Gathered from Mattter Furnished by the Mercer County Historical Society, Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Containing Also a Short History of Henderson County, published 1882; Past and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Perryton Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Perryton Township - 61,416 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gingle Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer County Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gingle Corners in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Gingle Corners | - | A tornado touched down 5.3 miles west of Matherville in Mercer County, and damaged mainly trees and some crops before lifting 3.5 miles north of Matherville. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 6 miles and produced EF1 damage from 100 mph winds, evidenced by snapping of hardwood tree trunks. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Gingle Corners | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Grove | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hamlet | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Aledo | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Millersburg | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Marston | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Shale City | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Old Gilchrist | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Wanlock | 6.6 miles | 12 |
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 Q122596423 | The 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 422739. 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.
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.