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Neilson, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Southern precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. It stands on Little Saline Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle.

Neilson within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Neilson between 1993 and 2016, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined8
Smoking1
Natural1

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
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 48
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 47
14 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeALUM
14 May 1993Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeILLHWY148
4 April 2008Naturalunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOGDEN
28 October 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOGDEN SOUTH 3
28 October 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOGDEN SOUTH 2
28 October 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOGDEN SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neilson in 6 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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
April 2024Tornado (EF2)Neilson$300,000An EF-2 tornado impacted the Lake Of Egypt community in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 2nd. The tornado began near Highway 148, just west of Interstate 57, damaging limbs on several trees. Roof shingle damage and a snapped tree occurred on Teske Rd with tree trunks snapped on Whitecotton Rd and IL-37. After crossing IL-37 east of Interstate 57, the tornado passed along Lake of Egypt Rd, significantly damaging the roof of a home. The most severe damage occurred near the intersection of Lake of Egypt Rd and Market Rd, where severe roof and structural damage occurred to three businesses. The Lake of Egypt Fire Protection building nearby had one of its windows blown out. Paralleling Lake of Egypt Rd, the tornado did damage to homes and outbuildings before lifting just to the west of Wagon Creek Rd. Hundreds of trees were uprooted, snapped at the base, or suffered damage to large limbs along the path. Peak winds were estimated at 130 mph.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Neilson$10,000An EF-0 tornado did intermittent damage from the central subdivisions of the Lake of Egypt community to just south of Creal Springs in Williamson County, IL. The great majority of the damage was from downed tree limbs. A couple trees in waterlogged soil were also uprooted. Peak winds from this tornado were estimated at 80 mph.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNeilson$5,000Large tree branches broken and a couple trees uprooted or snapped due to inflow winds south of the Lake of Egypt tornado damage path.
April 2023HailNeilson-Dime-size hail was photographed by a trained spotter between the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge and the Interstate 24 junction with I-57.
May 2023HailNeilson-The hail occurred on the west side of Lake of Egypt.
May 2021HailNeilson-This location was just west of Lake of Egypt, near the junction of Interstate 24 and Interstate 57.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Sunset Harbor1.7 miles20
Woodland Hills1.8 miles20
Kelleys1.9 miles20
Fopal2.0 miles20
Lake Estates2.0 miles20
Hudgens2.0 miles20
Cedar Hills2.0 miles20
Crestwood2.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423013. 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.