BlockPaloma, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Honey Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62359. The Survey maps it on the Coatsburg quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1948 USGS Camp Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Coatsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Coatsburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Paloma between 2014 and 2015, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015015 |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014019 |
| 16 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015009 |
| 15 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015009 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paloma in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Paloma | - | A week tornado damaged the front porch and blew off roof shingles at a farm house southeast of Paloma. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Paloma | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Paloma | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Paloma | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paloma | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paloma | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coatsburg | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Columbus | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fowler | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomfield | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mendon | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Camp Point | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Ewbanks | 7.3 miles | 19 | |
| Bigneck | 8.2 miles | 14 |
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 Paloma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475477 | 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 415325. 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.