BlockKellerville, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62324. It stands on Durbin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kellerville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Kellerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kellerville in 2009, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KLASUSER |
| 23 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | COR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellerville in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Kellerville | $9,000 | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Kellerville | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were washed out in the Clayton and Concord townships, including N 1353rd Lane near Walnut Fork Creek. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree in Siloam Springs State Park. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down or uprooted numerous large trees in Siloam Springs State Park. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Valley | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Chestline | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Clayton | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Kingston | 9.3 miles | 11 | |
| Liberty | 9.9 miles | 11 | |
| Beverly | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Blacks | 10.2 miles | 15 | |
| Camp Point | 10.3 miles | 14 |
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 Kellerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4219117 | 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 411361. 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.