BlockLa Prairie, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62346. The Survey maps it on the Bowen quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1948 USGS Camp Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Bowen quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of La Prairie in 2014, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Prairie in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Prairie | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree about 5 feet above its base. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | La Prairie | - | Up to five inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 24 between Coatsburg and Paloma, the underpass on Illinois Route 94 south of Golden, and up to a foot of water over Illinois Route 61 between Loraine and Golden. In Fall Creek, some homes were flooded and evacuations took place. Several roads were washed out including Columbus Road, about a tenth of a mile west of intersection with North 72nd Street, where Little Mill Creek flows under it. The washout was at least 12 feet deep and 30 feet wide. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | La Prairie | - | Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 24 just west of Coatsburg. One vehicle drove into the flood waters there and its occupants had to be rescued. Also, the junction of Illinois Route 96 and U.S. Highway 24 was under a couple inches of water. Several roads in Quincy were flooded. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | La Prairie | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 94 north of Golden and U.S. Highway 24 west of Camp Point. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1669475. 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.