Hayes, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Tuscola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61953. The Survey maps it on the Tuscola quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Hayes within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1950 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Tuscola SE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

2,739 words on this township

History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Tuscola Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Tuscola Township - 2,739 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hayes in 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
20 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0000046

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Hayes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Douglas City Hwy Dept Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayes in 3 storm reports in 2017: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Flood	Hayes	-	Rain amounts of 2.50 to 3.00 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across Douglas County. Several streets in Tuscola were impassable. Numerous rural roads and highways in the county were inundated, particularly U.S. Highway 36 from Tuscola to Newman, and U.S. Highway 45 near Tuscola which was closed due to high water. An additional 1.00 inch off rain occurred on April 30th, keeping many roads flooded. As a result, areal flooding continued until the late morning hours of May 2nd.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Hayes	-	Rain amounts of 2.50 to 3.00 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across Douglas County. Several streets in Tuscola were impassable. Numerous rural roads and highways in the county were inundated, particularly U.S. Highway 36 from Tuscola to Newman, and U.S. Highway 45 near Tuscola which was closed due to high water.
April 2017	Flood	Hayes	-	Rain amounts of 2.50 to 3.00 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across Douglas County. Several streets in Tuscola were impassable. Numerous rural roads and highways in the county were inundated, particularly U.S. Highway 36 from Tuscola to Newman, and U.S. Highway 45 near Tuscola which was closed due to high water. An additional 1.00 inch off rain occurred on April 30th, keeping many roads flooded. As a result, areal flooding continued until the late morning hours of May 2nd.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Prairie Acres	3.6 miles	14
Parkview	3.7 miles	14
Northgate	3.8 miles	14
Yoder Addition	3.9 miles	14
West Ridge	4.2 miles	11
Tuscola	4.4 miles	14
Chicken Bristle	4.9 miles	14
Meadowview	5.0 miles	14

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 Hayes	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687531	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 422791. 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.