BlockGurney, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ashland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62612. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1932 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Ashland township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Founder Of Chandlerville
Dr. Charles Chandler was the next physician of Cass County, and came as far as Beardstown in the spring of 1832, on a steamboat bound for Fort Clark on Lake Peoria. but the second Black Hawk war was then agitating the people and making it dangerous to travel very far to the north, so Dr. Chandler stopped off and after investigating the country, located near the mouth of Panther Creek, the present site of Chandleryille.
In the county-history sources
6,338 words on this townshipHistory of Cass County Illinois, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Ashland Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Ashland Township - 6,338 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gurney (historical) in 2008, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SPRADLIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Philadelphia | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Sylvan (historical) | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Old Princeton | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Burlingame | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Newmansville | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Little Indian | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Kisch | 8.1 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.
| Wikipedia article on Gurney (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5620207 | 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 422767. 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.