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Normandy, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greenville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61376. The Survey maps it on the New Bedford quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Normandy within Bureau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Normandy: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Quality Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walnut Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Normandy in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNormandy-The wind was reported from a mobile weather spotter.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindNormandy-The county emergency manager reported power lines down and arcing on 1050 East Street, 1 mile north of highway 92.
May 1995HailNormandy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
Walnut3.0 miles10
New Bedford5.1 miles10
Manlius7.4 miles10
Love8.3 miles11
Thomas9.7 miles11
Ohio10.0 miles10
Kasbeer10.6 miles10
Yorktown10.7 miles11

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 NormandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7053041The 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 414550. 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.

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.