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Lake City, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61937. The Survey maps it on the La Place quadrangle. 69 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Lake City within Moultrie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 6 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 2014Flash FloodLake City-Heavy rain accumulation of 2.00 to 3.00 in one hour resulted in flash flooding of rural areas in northern Moultrie County. Streets in Lovington and Lake City were flooded, as were parts of Illinois Route 32 and 133. Numerous rural roads were impassable in rural Moultrie County. The flooding subsided rapidly before daybreak.
February 2014Flash FloodLake City-Rainfall of 0.50 to 1.00 combined with a frozen ground to produce flash flooding across northern Moultrie County. Most rural roads were impassable. Illinois Route 133 between Lovington and Arthur was closed.
May 2009Flash FloodLake City-Heavy rain of 2.00 to 4.00 inches within two to three hours produced significant flash flooding of most roads in northern Moultrie County. Several roads were closed to traffic including Illinois Route 121 and Route 32 near Sullivan.
July 2008Flash FloodLake City-High water flowing across IL Route 32 between the town of Lake City and US-36.
May 2003Flash FloodLake City-Very heavy rain fell over Moultrie county, causing several roads to be flooded. Illinois Route 32 was briefly flooded in several locations as well as roads in Lovington.
April 2002Flash FloodLake City-Several roads in and around Lake City were closed due to flooding. No structural damage or injuries were reported due to the flooding.

Every storm recorded in Moultrie 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
Ullrich2.3 miles14
Dalton City5.4 miles11
Lovington5.4 miles14
Lanton6.1 miles12
Bethany7.6 miles14
Williamsburg8.3 miles14
Cushman8.3 miles14
Dunn9.0 miles14

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 Lake CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475345The 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 411705. 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.