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Keller, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Peoria City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61614. It sits by High Point. The Survey maps it on the Spring Bay quadrangle.

Keller within Peoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

43,882 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Peoria City Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Peoria City Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Keller between 2009 and 2018, burning about 2 acres 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
Debris and open burning2

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 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources075-18
20 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDUNDEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Keller: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Peoria City PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Construction Materials Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Joos Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jubilee Materials Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peoria Blacktop Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peoria Concrete Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Powley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Bay SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Peoria County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keller in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindKeller$200,000Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down.
August 2022Flash FloodKeller-Water was ponding on the roadway deep enough to rise above car tires.
August 2022Flash FloodKeller-North Sommer Street was closed between Pioneer Parkway and Candletree Drive due to flooding.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindKeller-A power pole was blown down at the intersection of Pioneer Parkway and Knoxville Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Peoria 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
Peoria Heights1.6 miles21
Sankoty1.7 miles23
Long Shore Park2.0 miles23
Golden Acres2.2 miles19
El Vista2.8 miles19
North Peoria3.1 miles21
Pioneer3.4 miles22
Averyville3.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422863. 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.