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Manville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Newtown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61319. The Survey maps it on the Streator South quadrangle.

Manville within Livingston County

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

452 words on this township

The History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newtown Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newtown Township - 452 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Manville in 2010, burning about 2 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
2 November 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11210

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Manville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Streator Brick Shale PitClayProducer
Valley View Shale QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manville in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2004: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004HailManville-a co-op observer located 1 mile south of Streator, or 5 miles northwest of Manville reported 2.00 inch hail.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindManville-Trees were blown down at a farm.
July 2004HailManville-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F0)Manville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
New Michigan (historical)1.2 miles8
Smithdale2.1 miles11
Missal3.2 miles8
Carriage Lane Estates4.1 miles11
Blackstone4.5 miles8
Vermilion City4.6 miles11
Reading4.7 miles11
Cornell4.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 412915. 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.