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Green Valley, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sand Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61534. The Survey maps it on the South Pekin quadrangle. 630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 536 feet above sea level.

Green Valley within Tazewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Green Valley fell from 709 to 630 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010709
2020630-79 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Green Valley between 2017 and 2018, burning about 17 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources087-18
20 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources076-17
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources032-2017
29 November 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources132-17
26 October 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources098-18
2 October 2017Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources116-17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Green Valley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Crabb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Valley in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
June 1994HailGreen Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Holmes3.5 miles13
Winkel4.1 miles13
Delavan5.6 miles13
South Pekin6.0 miles14
Parkland6.9 miles15
Dillon7.3 miles13
Hawley (historical)7.3 miles18
Midway7.8 miles18

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 Green ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2183052The 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 403275. 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.