BlockOmega, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Omega Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62849. It stands on Mountain Branch. The Survey maps it on the Omega quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1934 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Omega quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
969 words on this townshipBrinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Omega Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In 1856 Timothy Baldwin laid out the village of Omega, and built the first house. Dr. Lewis Rogers was the first doctor and Captain Elder the first store-keeper. Ralph F. Baldwin was the first postmaster. He was appointed when the office was established in 1855, before the village was laid out. A frame school-house was built in 1856
Passage source: Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, published 1909.
The village of Omega is a good point for a country store, two being there at present, but the village has not grown and has now less than one hundred inhabitants, but some day a railroad will be built through Omega, which will make it one of the good shipping points of the county.
Passage source: Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, published 1909.
4-4 in the Government survey, the northeast township in the county is Meacham. A little more than half of this township is beautiful level prairie land, slightly undulating in a very small part. The prairie is all cultivated and a good part of the timber land is cleared and in good farms. A small part of the timber, like that of Omega, is somewhat broken and hilly. The Chicago branch of the Central Illinois crosses the northwest corner, but has no station in the township. Kinmundy and Farina in Fayette county are its markets for the larger part, although some produce is taken to Clay county station on the Springfield branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern.
Passage source: Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, published 1909.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Omega: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shufeldt Property | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omega in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Omega | $5,000 | A tornado touched down just northwest of Omega and tracked eastward south of Forbes Lake primarily uprooting and snapping trees along its path and causing minor roof damage to a farm outbuilding on Seavers Road. The tornado then crossed into Clay County (WFO ILX) and strengthened to EF2 intensity. The tornado was rated EF1 in Marion County with a path length of 4.66 miles and a max path width of 500 yards. Overall, the tornado was rated EF2 with a path length of 8.28 miles and a max path width of 500 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Omega | - | Several large trees were uprooted in Omega and in Stephen Forbes State Park. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Omega | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several pine and ash trees at a home about 1 mile east of Stephen Forbes State Park. Roof shingles were blown off of the home and a machine shed behind the home was destroyed. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Omega | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 415116. 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.