BlockLake Fork, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Pulaski Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62541. The Survey maps it on the Lake Fork quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Lake Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
12,245 words on this townshipHistory of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Mount Pulaski Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
liACOCK SAMXJBL A. saloon, billiard hall, and bowling alley, west side of public square, Mt. Pulaski; was born in Northumberland Co. Pa. Sept. 15, 1835; came to this county on Nov. 8, 1856; taught . school at the CopeUnd school-house, on Lake Fork in the winter of 1856-7 ; then ^ught at Shoup's school-house on Salt Creek the winter of 1858; went to Colorado the same year ; returned to Mt. Pulaski, Aug. 23, 1871, and engaged in trading ; started in the saloon business in liAUGHLIN ROBERT H. farmer. Sec. 9; P.O. Mt. Pulaski; dem; Meth; bom in Ohio July 20, 1835; his father, John C. came to Logan Co. Oct. 14, 1835,. and he was raised in this county; married March 5, 1857, to Susannah Jackson, bom Ohio, March 5, 1833; had eight children, lost one: Emily, John Wesley, Albert B., Lucejla Ann, Leonard Jefferson, Phoebe Mary, Chloe, and Eliza; was the first man that enlisted in this township, April 14^ 1861, Co. H, 7th I. V. three months' service; enlisted again Aug. 1862, Co. D,. lo6th L v.; served three years, discharged Aug. I, 1865; has been elected two terms constable, from 1866 to 1870; helped to sink coal shaft at Lincoln lilNCOIiN JOHK, farmer, Sec i; P.O. Mt. Pulaski; from Pickaway Co. Ohio; rep; wa s bQm Nov. 9, 1834; came to this county April 17, 1857; was married March 19^ 1857 to Malinda Morris, who was bom in Pickaway Co. Ohio, Sept. 25, 1837; ^^^^ five chUdren: Mary S., Charles W., Maud, Edward M. and Abraham, now deceased; has 160 acres of land, valued at $8,000
Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Mount Pulaski Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Fork between 2009 and 2010, burning about 3 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | JOHNSON |
| 17 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10368 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Fork in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Fork | $55,000 | A severe thunderstorm moving to the northeast into southern Logan County produced a wind gust estimated at 95 mph, most likely from a microburst. The wind destroyed a outbuilding in an open field. A few trees were also damaged in the vicinity of the building. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Lake Fork | - | A narrow band of heavy rainfall produced around 1.50 of rain in an hour across a small part of eastern Logan County. Numerous streets were flooded in the city of Mount Pulaski, along with most rural roads northeast of the city. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Fork | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornland | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Pulaski | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Narita | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Elkhart | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Broadwell | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Chestervale | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Fulcher | 8.7 miles | 17 | |
| Fogarty | 9.3 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 Lake Fork | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6475879 | 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 411713. 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.