BlockLarchland, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lenox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61462. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood East quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1921 USGS Monmouth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Monmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kirkwood East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Kirkwood East quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,880 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Lenox Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This township is watered by the Henderson Branch and its tributaries, which heads in section 10, running westerly, and Cedar Creek, which runs southeasterly. The nature of the land is rolling, with level prairies. There never was much timber in the township, and there is hardly an acre of ground which cannot be easily plowed. The principal grains are oats, hay and corn. The latter is cultivated extensively. It is probably the largest grain-producing townshipin the county. Certainly there is no township that can present any finer farms, farm buildings and dwellings. There are two railroad stations in the township, Phelps and Larchland, which afford the people mail facilities, trading and shipping.-
ARCHLAND is the railroad station of the St. Louis Branch of the C. B. & Q. R. R., situated near the southwest corner of Lenox Township. It was formerly called Lenox and was started after the completion of the railroad. Larchland is quite a shipping point for grain, which is handled chiefly by J. H. Robertson, who has an elevator. John Hodgson has a large general store and carries on an extensive business, and is also the Postmaster. The first Postmaster here was Henry Redant, who was appointed in 1870. He was succeeded by J. M. Young, and Mr. Young by Mr. Hodgson.
There is also a blacksmith and' wagon shop here. Larchland has constructed recently a fine new school house which is a very creditable building. Having secured a good building, they next provided a good teacher to instruct their children, and have now a first-class village school, with a good large attendance.
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 Lenox Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
4 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Larchland between 2013 and 2014, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-264 |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-244 |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 201425 |
| 17 October 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 201369 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larchland in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Hail | Larchland | - | Quarter-sized hail fell about four miles north of Roseville, IL at 1:53 pm June 15. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Larchland | - | 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 Larchland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6488790 | 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 411831. 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.