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Moronts, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hennepin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61327. The Survey maps it on the Depue quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Moronts within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Moronts between 2008 and 2015, burning about 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2

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
17 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000065
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000051
5 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000044
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000035
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000032
30 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTAND6
26 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources008-032
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Moronts: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Depue Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1973
New Jersey Zinc Depue PlantZinc, LeadPast Producer
Bureau Rawson Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chiado Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Depue White City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dieci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Embs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gedraitis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newbaum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moronts in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMoronts-Law Enforcement reported a couple of trees down in the Wolf Hollow area. The time of the event was estimated using radar.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Mark2.8 miles13
Hennepin3.4 miles13
Granville3.9 miles19
Florid4.0 miles17
Standard6.4 miles19
Undercliff7.8 miles17
Indian Spring8.0 miles17
Walnut Grove8.3 miles17

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 Q6913267The 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 422999. 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.