BlockOgle, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Abington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61442. The Survey maps it on the Keithsburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1935 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1935 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,258 words on this townshipPast and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Abington Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Abington Township - 1,258 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ogle between 2014 and 2016, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge | SPRING SLOUGH |
| 7 December 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge | KSB CAMPFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogle in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 tornado. 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 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Ogle | - | A brief tornado damaged trees at and just east of a farmstead. Some trunks were snapped off near the base. Maximum wind speeds were estimated around 100 mph. The tornado was on the ground for about 1 minute. The time was estimated by radar, and the damage was observed and documented by emergency management. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keithsburg | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Seaton | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Joy | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Arpee | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| New Boston | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Sunbeam | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Mannon | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Aledo | 9.6 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423033. 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.