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Levings, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Olmsted precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62970. The Survey maps it on the Olmsted quadrangle.

Levings within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 25 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

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Levings between 1993 and 2010, burning about 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 February 1993Equipment and vehicle use25 acresShawnee National Forestnot named
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCypress Creek National Wildlife RefugeLONG REACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Levings: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Southern Clay, Inc. PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levings in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 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
March 2025FloodLevings-Late February flooding continued into early March along the Ohio River at Olmsted. Minor flooding of low-lying fields and woodlands in the flood plain continued. River levels fell just below flood very early on the 2nd.
May 2010FloodLevings-Moderate flooding of the Ohio River occurred in the Grand Chain area. Water reached the power house at Lock and Dam 53. Low-lying woods, fields, and bottomlands were affected.
February 2011FloodLevings-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Olmsted2.9 miles25
Grand Chain3.1 miles18
New Grand Chain3.2 miles18
Pryortown5.0 miles24
America6.4 miles25
Perks6.5 miles18
Karnak7.0 miles19
Pulaski7.6 miles24

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 Q122540480The 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 411961. 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.