BlockNarita, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Laenna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62548. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Niantic quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Laenna township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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Romer, was killed in 1866, by falling from the sixth story of a building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1855 our subject came to the United States, and when he had reached New York City had not money sufficient to pay the drayage of his trunk, and the dray¬ man took it, and he was left in a strange country with no money nor friends.
In the county-history sources
7,978 words on this townshipHistory of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878; History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Laenna Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Laenna Township - 7,978 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Narita in 2009, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SCALESKI |
Storms near this place
4 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Narita in 4 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Narita | 1 hurt | The tornado touched down about three mile west-southwest of Latham where it snapped off around 10 trees. The tornado was eventually sighted by a spotter about a half mile southwest of Latham, damaging some trees by a home and scouring the ground in the field as it headed toward Latham. The damage in Latham was mainly to trees, with one business having its roof blown off. The tornado dissipated on the east side of Latham at Highway 121. A semi truck was overturned on Route 121, resulting in minor injuries to the driver. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narita | - | Powerlines were blown down along 169th Street. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narita | - | Three power poles were leaning near the intersection of Route 121 and 1842nd Avenue. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Narita | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latham | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Pulaski | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Chestnut | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bakerville | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Fork | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Chestervale | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cornland | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Beason | 11.2 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 Q6965979 | 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 423010. 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.
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.