BlockGlenarm, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ball Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62536. The Survey maps it on the Divernon quadrangle. It stands 597 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1922 USGS Divernon quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Divernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Divernon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glenarm in 2008, burning about 10 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CNRR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenarm in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenarm | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenarm | $21,000 | Three power poles were snapped. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenarm | - | Three 12-inch diameter 20-foot long trees were blown down onto a driveway. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenarm | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree across county road 11S one mile northwest of Glenarm. No injuries or structural damage were reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Glenarm | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Glenarm | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Glenarm | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Glenarm | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawnee Junction | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cimic | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Commanche Village | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Divernon | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Irwins Park | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Pawnee | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Beamington | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Chatham | 4.7 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Glenarm | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5568147 | 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 409062. 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.