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Loraine, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Keene Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62349. The Survey maps it on the Loraine quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Loraine within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Loraine fell from 313 to 300 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
2010313
2020300-13 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Loraine in 2015, burning about 10 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 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
1 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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 Loraine: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Weitholder Lorraine Plt.#10 Qry.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loraine in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLoraine$50,000Widespread wind damage extending from 2 miles northwest of Loraine to between Golden and Camp Point. Many trees, as well as tree limbs were blown down in Loraine, Golden and Camp Point. In Golden, a tree fell onto a house causing moderate roof damage. Also, numerous power lines and a couple of power poles were blown down. No injuries were reported.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLoraine$500The county sheriff reported numerous large trees down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLoraine-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs and power lines across northern Adams County. On far northeast side of Quincy a two foot diameter tree was blown over damaging three vehicles parked near it.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLoraine-Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree onto a house in Mendon causing moderate roof damage.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLoraine-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous power lines across northern portions of Adams County. Also, just west of Camp Point several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLoraine-An intense bow echo moved through blown down several trees, tree limbs and power lines in Loraine.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLoraine-Thunderstorm winds were estimated around 70 mph in Loraine as the storms moved through. Further to the east, several large trees were uprooted and numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Golden.
January 2005HailLoraine-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail north of Loraine.
September 2019HailLoraine-no account filed
June 2018HailLoraine-no account filed
June 2018HailLoraine-no account filed
June 2012HailLoraine-no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLoraine-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLoraine-no account filed
September 2003HailLoraine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Woodville3.2 miles14
Bigneck3.7 miles14
Mendon5.6 miles15
Marcelline8.1 miles15
Lima8.4 miles14
Coatsburg9.1 miles14
Paloma9.2 miles14
Ursa9.4 miles15

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 LoraineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2174067The 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 412632. 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.