BlockNewmansville, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Newmansville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62612. The Survey maps it on the Newmansville quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1930 USGS Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Newmansville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Newmansville between 2009 and 2013, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-000005 |
| 25 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90221 |
| 25 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90218 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newmansville in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Newmansville | - | Video shared by a trained spotter showed a brief tornado occurred in eastern Cass County south of Newmansville. Sentinel satellite imagery showed the track began near Carson Road south of Cox Creek Road, and tracked northeast through mainly farm fields to Pschirrer Road. It crossed County Line Road just north of Pschirrer Road, and continued into Menard County for another 1.3 miles. No damage was reported in either county, so an intensity rating could not be assigned. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Newmansville | - | A tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of Newmansville Road and Cox Creek Road about 5.1 miles northeast of Philadelphia at 3:16 PM CDT. The tornado dissipated by 3:17 PM CDT with no damage occurring. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Newmansville | - | A narrow band of heavy rain and flash flooding was reported across the central part of Cass County. Several streets in Beardstown were flooded. Numerous rural roads from Beardstown to Bluff Springs and north of Newmansville were impassable due to deep water. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newmansville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down 4 large trees in Newmansville. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newmansville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down three large trees in a cemetery in Beardstown. A storm spotter in Newmansville estimated thunderstorm winds around 60 mph. No damage was reported. Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Chandlerville. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Newmansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Newmansville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylvan (historical) | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Palmerton | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gurney (historical) | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Philadelphia | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Anderson | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Ashland | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Chandlerville | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Burlingame | 9.7 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.
| Wikipedia article on Newmansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7018514 | 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 414494. 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.