Marcoe, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1982. It stands in McClellan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62864. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:48000
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
239 words on this townshipWall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on McClellan Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on McClellan Township - 239 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Marcoe in 2020, burning about 20 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-01385 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marcoe: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Cty Hwy Dept Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcoe in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Marcoe | - | Water was flowing across Highway 148 near the Interstate 57 overpass, making conditions dangerous. A co-operative observer at Waltonville measured 3.79 inches just prior to the start of the flooding. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site near Rend Lake recorded a 24-hour total of 6.23 inches. |
| February 2011 | Hail | Marcoe | - | Dime-size hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 148 and Interstate 57, just south of Mount Vernon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morganville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bakerville | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Webster Hill Estates | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Drivers | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Dareville | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Vernon | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bonnie | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Waltonville | 5.6 miles | 12 |
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 Q122570991 | 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 422937. 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.






