Kemp, Illinois

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.

• 1936 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1936 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000

History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kemp in 2 storm reports in 2023: 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Douglas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 411385. 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.