BlockHunt City, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Hunt City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62480. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1940 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt City in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunt City | $1,000 | A tree was blown down in Hunt City. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunt City | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and power lines one mile south of Hunt City. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookville | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Willow Hill | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Yale | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Falmouth | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Plainfield | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Advance | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rose Hill | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Point Pleasant | 7.8 miles | 13 |
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 Hunt City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14687579 | 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 410690. 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.
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.