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Leon Corners, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prophetstown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61277. The Survey maps it on the Hooppole quadrangle.

Leon Corners within Whiteside 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.

In the county-history sources

20,495 words on this township

History of Whiteside County, Illinois, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time;, published 1877; Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States, published 1885; History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prophetstown Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prophetstown Township - 20,495 words.

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leon Corners in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2020Tornado (EF1)Leon Corners-An EF-1 tornado with estimated wind speeds of 90 MPH. The tornado caused damage to a farm outbuilding and uprooted trees at a farmstead. The tornado flipped a farm irrigator before lifting.
June 2016Flash FloodLeon Corners-A 5 inch rainfall event in one hour produced flash flooding in and around Tampico Illinois. A road 1 mile west of Tampico was closed due to flooding, and other roads in an around Tampico were reported to be covered in water. The city park in Tampico was flooded.
February 2024HailLeon Corners-no account filed
February 2024HailLeon Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whiteside 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
Jefferson Corners3.3 miles11
Prophetstown5.4 miles11
Portland5.7 miles11
Spring Hill6.7 miles14
Tampico7.5 miles11
Pratt (historical)7.8 miles11
Denrock7.9 miles11
Hamilton Corners8.2 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122596799The 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 411949. 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.