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Grange Hall, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Somerset Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62966. The Survey maps it on the Murphysboro quadrangle.

Grange Hall within Jackson County

On record in Grange Hall

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Grange Hall between 2010 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 burning2
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
9 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestFIVE POINTS
16 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestHWY 149
12 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLITTLE LAKE WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grange Hall in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGrange Hall$2,000Between Murphysboro and Vergennes, a tree was down, blocking a secondary road.
May 2025HailGrange Hall-Hail to the size of golf balls fell north of Murphysboro at Ava Rd and Highway 13/127. Several other reports of hail north of Murphysboro were received from broadcast media partners.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Harrison1.7 miles18
Murphysboro3.8 miles18
Texas Junction4.1 miles18
Oraville4.5 miles19
Mount Carbon4.6 miles18
De Soto5.0 miles18
Ward5.1 miles18
Vergennes5.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772200. 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.