BlockLa Harpe, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in La Harpe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61450. The Survey maps it on the La Harpe quadrangle. 1,175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
On record in La Harpe
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
LaHarpe Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.0 miles away
LaHarpe City Halllisted 1991 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLa Harpe fell from 1,235 to 1,175 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,235 | |
| 2020 | 1,175 | -60 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1918 USGS La Harpe quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS La Harpe quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,314 words on this townshipHistory of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on La Harpe Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on La Harpe Township - 3,314 words.
Storms near this place
27 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Harpe in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Flood | La Harpe | $250,000 | Several rounds of heavy rains fell across Hancock County resulting in flash flooding across much of the county during the afternoon of April 17 through the morning of April 18. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed large trees, power lines, and an advertising sign, and destroyed a barn. Numerous roofs in the community were damaged. Winds also blew a garage across a yard. |
| May 2004 | Hail | La Harpe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | La Harpe | $3,000 | On County Line Road |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | Garage outbuilding destroyed, with winds estimate at 100 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | Farm outbuilding destroyed. Winds estimated 90 to 100 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | Spotter reported snapped power poles, lots of trees down, and some barns blown over between Durham and LaHarpe. Winds were estimated over 80 miles per hour. |
| June 2023 | Hail | La Harpe | - | This report included a photo of the hail. |
| June 2023 | Hail | La Harpe | - | Pea to quarter size hail lasted 10 to 15 minutes, and covered the ground. This hail damaged the corn and bean crops. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | Broadcast media relayed a report of power lines down in the La Harpe Area. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| February 2017 | Hail | La Harpe | - | A hail swath of quarter size hail was reported by a spotter to be 3 to 4 miles long along Highway 94. |
| February 2017 | Hail | La Harpe | - | A citizen reported 1.25 diameter hail. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | The local fire department reported numerous cases of structural damage on the east end of town. A roof was blown off a shed, a wall was blown out of a dealership, and a home shifted a few inches off its foundation. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | A trained spotter reported several tree branches over 3 inches in diameter were down. Time was estimated from radar. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | A trained spotter reported a tree blown down on a power line. Estimated 65 mph wind. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Harpe | - | Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in some parks in La Harpe, IL around 150 am CDT June 27. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | La Harpe | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of Route 9 about 3 miles east of La Harpe, IL during the late night of July 19 and morning of July 20. The flood water was about 1 foot deep and several area ditches were overflowing. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | La Harpe | - | Water up to a foot deep covered Illinois route 9. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | La Harpe | - | Water up to 5 feet deep filled the railroad viaduct on Illinois Route 9 east of La Harpe. A vehicle stalled in the high water. |
| June 2007 | Flood | La Harpe | - | Water topped a bridge along County Road 2850 East, and the road was subsequently closed. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | La Harpe | - | Railroad viaduct east of La Harpe re-flooded. Highway crews were called out to clear debris that had been deposited by flood waters on roads all across the county. |
| September 2006 | Hail | La Harpe | - | Sheriff department reported penny size hail. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | La Harpe | - | Several roads in and around town closed due to flood waters. |
| April 2023 | Hail | La Harpe | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | La Harpe | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | La Harpe | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | La Harpe | - | no account filed |
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.
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 La Harpe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578765 | 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 411646. 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.