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Harrisonville, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Maine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60416. The Survey maps it on the Coal City quadrangle.

Harrisonville within Grundy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

16,283 words on this township

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois /cedited by Newton Bateman, Paul Selby,; and History of Grundy County (historical and Biographical) by Special Authors and Contributors .., published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Maine Township covers location", well cultivated farms corn' principal crop, has one shipping station, railroad facilities, owners of land, wilmington star coal company.

Read the chapter on Maine Township - 16,283 words.

Fires near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Harrisonville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 759 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
31 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE13
13 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE12
5 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE10
29 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE11
29 April 2003Natural600 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGOOSE LAKE
26 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRAACE8
11 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-000183
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grundy 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 Harrisonville: 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
Bohac Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grundy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisonville in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarrisonville$50,000There was damage to a set of portable bleachers, two portable toilets, bundles of styrofoam insolation, and four 55 gallon trash cans at the high school on Division Street. The windshield of a vehicle was broken by flying debris. Along Oak Street, from Broadway to the railroad tracks, a construction trailer was destroyed, tree limbs were blown down, a tree was uprooted, and there was minor roof damage to a house and a garage.

Every storm recorded in Grundy 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
Carbon Hill0.7 miles20
Coal City1.0 miles20
Eileen1.8 miles20
Centerville (historical)2.2 miles20
Gorman2.7 miles20
Diamond2.8 miles20
Central City3.6 miles10
Braceville4.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409868. 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.