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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.

Marcoe within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

239 words on this township

Wall'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 2020

Regional 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 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
18 November 2020Debris and open burning20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-01385

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jefferson Cty Hwy Dept PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Flash FloodMarcoe-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 2011HailMarcoe-Dime-size hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 148 and Interstate 57, just south of Mount Vernon.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Morganville3.5 miles12
Bakerville3.7 miles12
Webster Hill Estates4.5 miles12
Drivers4.6 miles12
Dareville4.8 miles11
Mount Vernon4.8 miles12
Bonnie5.5 miles11
Waltonville5.6 miles12

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 Q122570991The 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.