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Leonore, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61332. The Survey maps it on the Leonore quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Leonore within LaSalle County

Population over time

2 figures

Leonore fell from 130 to 121 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010130
2020121-9 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

358 words on this township

History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richland Township - 358 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Leonore between 2008 and 2019, burning about 63 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources923101
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2019-089
17 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2017-062
6 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1345
7 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources107101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leonore: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. 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
Marquette Co Cement--Lowell PlantStoneProducer
Ristokrat Clay Pit No. 4ClayPast Producer

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonore in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2020Funnel CloudLeonore-A funnel cloud extended about one third of the way to the ground and then dissipated.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLeonore-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down between Lenore and Streator.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLeonore-Large limbs torn off of trees by strong wind gusts.
March 2006HailLeonore-no account filed
March 2005HailLeonore-no account filed
July 2003HailLeonore-no account filed
April 1996HailLeonore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaSalle 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
Wilsman2.9 miles11
Milla3.3 miles11
Farm Ridge4.3 miles11
Ticona4.5 miles12
Lowell4.5 miles21
Vermilionville4.9 miles27
Tonica4.9 miles12
Lostant5.3 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 LeonoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2128004The 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 411953. 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.