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Padua, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dawson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61737. The Survey maps it on the Holder quadrangle.

Padua within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Padua in 2013, burning about 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Padua in 1 storm report in 2018: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Padua$30,000A tornado touched down 3.8 miles southwest of Ellsworth at 7:21 PM CST. It damaged a large outbuilding before quickly dissipating at 7:22 PM CST.

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Holder2.1 miles14
Ellsworth2.5 miles12
Bentown2.7 miles14
Fletcher5.4 miles14
Merna5.6 miles14
Downs6.7 miles14
Le Roy6.8 miles13
Cooksville6.9 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 PaduaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85791761The 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 415295. 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.