Missal, Illinois

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Newtown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61313. The Survey maps it on the Blackstone quadrangle.

Missal within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Odell quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Blackstone quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000

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 Missal 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 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
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	11210

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Missal: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Streator Brick Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Feken Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Streator Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Missal in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
June 2010	Tornado (EF3)	Missal	$750,000	Very quickly after the tornado that hit Streator lifted, yet another tornado touched down over extreme northern Livingston county approximately one quarter mile south of the county line and about a half mile west of 1100 E Road. Shortly after touching down, this tornado caused severe damage to homes on 1100 E Road and destroyed a barn as well. There were also several large trees downed in this location. As the tornado continued eastward, it completely collapsed a metal truss high tension electrical tower and bent over several other metal truss electrical towers in its path, which is consistent with low end EF3 damage. At this time the tornado was moving through an extremely rural area, however there was also a lone hardwood tree in its path that was debarked, with only large de-leafed branches remaining. \|\|The tornado continued eastward crossing Illinois Route 170 just south of the LaSalle and Livingston county line where hardwood trees were snapped. Large trees were broken at a farm house and a machine shed and grain bins were destroyed. The tornado then moved eastward for several more miles downing multiple trees and resulting in some minor structural damage between 1700 E Road and 1800 E Road.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smithdale	2.0 miles	11
Blackstone	2.9 miles	8
New Michigan (historical)	3.0 miles	8
Manville	3.2 miles	11
Carriage Lane Estates	4.3 miles	11
South Streator	4.7 miles	11
Vermilion City	4.9 miles	11
Katy Did	5.3 miles	8

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 Q122539197

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 422990. 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.