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Imbs, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stookey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62260. It stands on Hickman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Imbs within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Imbs in 2009, burning under an 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources255 FOREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Imbs: 3 past producers, 3 plants, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Alpha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casper Stolle Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Columbia Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East St. Louis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krause #1 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
T.W. Stolle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imbs in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindImbs-Thunderstorm winds caused intense and highly localized damage between the intersection of Imbs Station Road and Wagner Road and the intersection of Imbs Station Road and Illinois Route 163. Several power lines were blown down, as well as several trees uprooted, and damage to a couple of sheds.
March 2025HailImbs-no account filed
March 2025HailImbs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Tillman1.3 miles27
Westview2.0 miles21
Stolle2.3 miles27
Centerville Station2.7 miles21
Falling Spring2.8 miles27
Bluffside2.9 miles20
Crest Hill3.3 miles21
Lake Siding3.6 miles21

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 ImbsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687603The 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 426381. 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.