Malvern, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clyde Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61270. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle.

Malvern within Whiteside County

On record in Malvern

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Malvern Roller Milllisted 1995 · 0.7 miles away

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.

1934 USGS Morrison quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Morrison quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Morrison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Dixon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Morrison quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

3,009 words on this township

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 names this settlement in its chapter on Clyde Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Jesse Hill is credited with being the first settler in Clyde, in the spring of 1835. He was followed by William Wink, who made a claim adjoining. There was but very little done toward settling up or improving this territory until 1838, when substantial men began to come in. During this year Samuel Wessell, who was a native of England, Zachariah Dent, H. W. Daniels, Hugh Hollinshead and Mr. Wing came in and made settlements.

Passage source: 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.

W. D. Hayes secured the establishment of a mail route in the township in 1876, with a postoffice at Malvern village. He was appointed Postmaster, and has held the position since that time. There is another postoffice now in the township, located on section 14, and known as the White Pigeon office.

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 Clyde Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

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 Malvern: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whiteside County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malvern in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	-	A public report of power poles down at this location.
May 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Malvern	-	A tornado developed ENE of Morrison, IL in Whiteside County, shortly before 2:30 pm. The tornado followed an intermittent path northeast before hitting a farmstead near the Whiteside/Carroll County border. This tornado exited Whiteside County about 4 miles NE of Coleta. The tornado snapped a 14 inch diameter tree, caused shingle damage, and downed power lines. The tornado was rated EF1 in Whiteside County, with maximum winds estimated around 100 mph. The tornado was designated as EF-U in Carroll County, as there was no observable damage. The tornado was on the ground for about 24 minutes along an intermittent 12 mile path.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	-	A public report of several large tree limbs down.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Malvern	-	A report received via ESPOTTER estimated sustained thunderstorms wind speeds of 60 MPH and gusts over 70 MPH. A huge oak tree was down along with numerous large tree limbs down estimated at approximately 4 to 6 inches.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White Pigeon	2.4 miles	11
Franklin Corners	4.4 miles	11
Round Grove	4.9 miles	11
Morrison	5.2 miles	11
Coleta	5.5 miles	11
Unionville	5.7 miles	11
Ustick	5.9 miles	11
Agnew	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 412878. 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.

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.