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Glenview, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Caseyville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62269. The Survey maps it on the O'Fallon quadrangle.

Glenview within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

7,864 words on this township

History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881; Centennial, McKendree College, with St. Clair County History, published 1928 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Caseyville Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Caseyville Township - 7,864 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glenview in 2010, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBELVDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Glenview: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Quality Stone Quarry and Mill No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hill Brick Co. Shale PitClayPast Producer
Little Canteen Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenview in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023HailGlenview-A wide swath of large hail fell across O'Fallon and Shiloh.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindGlenview-Thunderstorm winds blew down several signs along I-64. Also, a few large trees were snapped off on the southeast side of O'Fallon.
March 2025HailGlenview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Carbon0.5 miles17
Petersburg0.9 miles17
O'Fallon1.4 miles17
Crossroads1.6 miles17
Capitol Oaks1.7 miles17
Furman1.9 miles17
Pontiac2.5 miles17
Shiloh2.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426351. 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.