BlockBefore

Hudgens, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Southern precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Hudgens within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Hudgens between 1993 and 2016, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
24 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeGRASS
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 48
11 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeAREA6
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 47
14 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeALUM
14 June 2011Naturalunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeAREA 6
14 May 1993Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeILLHWY148
4 April 2008Naturalunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOGDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hudgens in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 3 hail, 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
May 1999HailHudgens$50,000A supercell thunderstorm entered southern Williamson County near the Lake of Egypt. Hail up to baseball size occurred on the north side of Lake of Egypt, near Hudgens. In the city of Marion, hail up to the size of quarters fell.
March 2016HailHudgens-Dime-size hail was reported in the Lake of Egypt area.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHudgens-Gusts around 65 MPH were observed just north of the Lake of Egypt.
February 2012HailHudgens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Neilson2.0 miles20
Sunset Harbor2.7 miles20
Lake Estates2.9 miles20
Chamness (historical)3.0 miles20
North Shoreline3.3 miles20
Woodland Hills3.3 miles20
Fopal3.4 miles20
Crestwood3.5 miles20

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 HudgensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888498The 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 422826. 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.

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.