BlockLintner, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Cerro Gordo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61929. The Survey maps it on the La Place quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Bement quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS La Place quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1999 USGS La Place quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,856 words on this townshipHistory of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883; Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois : Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Influential Citizens, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Cerro Gordo Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Cerro Gordo township has two railroads and four stations. The Wabash railroad enters the township at the northeastern corner, extends southwest, leaving the township about two miles south of the northwest corner. Milmine and Cerro Gordo are situated on this road, while Lintner and La Place are on the road formerly known as the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield, and which passes from east to west about one-half a mile from the southern boundary line.
Passage source: History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883.
twelve thousand, four hundred and eightyeight dollars, work to be completed in four months. The contract for the cell work was let to Van Dorn Iron Works Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, for eight thousand, six hundred dollars.
Passage source: Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois : Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Influential Citizens, published 1903.
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 Cerro Gordo Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lintner in 1 storm report in 2020: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Lintner | - | A landspout tornado touched down beneath a developing shower 3.8 miles northeast of La Place at 6:07 PM CDT. The tornado tracked very slowly northeastward through an open field for about 1 mile before dissipating at 6:15 PM CDT. No damage was reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burrowsville | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| LaPlace | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Hammond | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Voorhies | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cerro Gordo | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Pierson | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bodmann | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Milmine | 7.5 miles | 11 |
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 Q122588875 | 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 412249. 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.