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Hoosier, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hoosier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62858. The Survey maps it on the Louisville East quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Hoosier within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

23 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hoosier between 2009 and 2013, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1

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
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFITCH
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMCPEAK
7 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources30
4 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources29
3 March 2010Smoking10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCARTER
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources27
23 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources41
22 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hoosier: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clay Cty Hwy DeptStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Louisville City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoosier in 1 storm report in 2015: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Flash FloodHoosier$20,000Thunderstorms produced 3.00 to 5.00 of rainfall in a large part of Clay County, mainly between 0000 and 0300 local standard time. Flash flooding rapidly developed, which made many rural roads impassable from Iola to Louisville. U.S. Highway 45 near Louisville was also flooded, and was closed after floodwaters swept a car off the highway. The driver was rescued and no injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Louisville3.3 miles9
Bible Grove4.7 miles9
Sailor Springs5.6 miles9
Riffle5.8 miles9
Hord6.6 miles9
Ingraham6.8 miles9
Iola9.4 miles9
Flora9.4 miles10

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 HoosierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687566The 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 1747729. 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.