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Lawndale, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in East Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61751. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln East quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Lawndale within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lawndale between 2008 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning5
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180573
22 August 2018Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180506
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSMITH
11 July 2019Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources190468
3 June 2018Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180355
29 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180345
10 March 2018Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180174
25 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400 AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lawndale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Twomey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawndale in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2021Flash FloodLawndale$300,000Kickapoo Creek reached record levels, resulting in the flooding of several homes in Lawndale. The basement walls of one house collapsed, destroying the structure.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLawndale-A vehicle was blown off I-55 into a ditch just southwest of Atlanta.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindLawndale-Thunderstorm winds blew down 8 large power poles along old Route 66 just south of Lawndale and blew over a semi on I-55 at the Atlanta exit. No injuries were reported.
May 1998HailLawndale-no account filed
July 1996HailLawndale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Atlanta3.9 miles13
Evans4.3 miles14
Mountjoy4.7 miles13
Skelton5.4 miles14
Bell5.8 miles15
Lincoln6.5 miles14
Union6.6 miles13
Beason7.0 miles12

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 LawndaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6503685The 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 411862. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.