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Parkland, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61546. It lies near The Mound. The Survey maps it on the Manito quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Parkland within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

8,010 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Spring Lake Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Spring Lake Township - 8,010 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Parkland between 2009 and 2018, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2018-76
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources032-2017
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSUNSET
11 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources036-17
12 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources257

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Parkland: 1 producer. 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
Elzie Hurley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkland in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 tornado, 5 flash flood, 3 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
April 2013Flash FloodParkland$31,400,000Very heavy rainfall of 3.00 to 5.00 inches resulted in damage to thousands of houses and businesses in the county, which included the cities of East Peoria, Pekin, Washington and Morton. Every creek and stream in the western and northern part of the county was flooded. Nearly every road in the flooded area was impassable, including parts of Interstate 74 which had to be closed. Numerous water rescues were made. Mudslides were also reported on the bluffs along the Illinois River which did damage to a gas station and covered U.S. Highway 150 with several inches of mud.
May 2000Tornado (F1)Parkland$275,000A tornado briefly touched down 1.5 miles west of Parkland on a farm. It destroyed 4 large grain bins and blew a machine shed 100 yards from where it had been. A garage nearby sustained minor damage with siding and a door blown off. No injuries were reported.
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Parkland$80,000A tornado briefly touched down 4.8 miles southwest of South Pekin at 5:34 PM CST. The tornado blew over a couple of outbuildings, damaged a pool deck structure near a home, and tipped over an irrigation system before dissipating 4.7 miles southwest of South Pekin at 5:35 PM CST.
March 2025Tornado (EFU)Parkland-A broadcast meteorologist video taped a brief tornado touchdown near Spring Lake Township, which then moved northeast for about one minute before dissipating. No damage was noted.
March 2023Tornado (EFU)Parkland-A tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of Spring Lake Road and State Park Road about 3 miles southeast of Banner at 2:37 PM CDT before quickly dissipating. No damage was observed.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindParkland-Numerous power poles were blown down and siding was damaged on a house along Weir Road between Jacob Road and Wagonseller Road.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Parkland-A tornado touched down along the leading edge of a line of thunderstorms about 3.5 miles west-northwest of Green Valley at 11:14 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, damaging the roof of a manufactured home and several trees before dissipating 2.6 miles northwest of Green Valley at 11:16 PM CDT.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindParkland-Numerous large tree branches were blown down about 6 miles north of Manito.
June 2015Flash FloodParkland-Rainfall amounts of 2.00 to 3.00, on top of waterlogged ground, were reported during the early evening of June 28th in extreme southwest Tazewell County. This resulted in the flooding of rural roads in the Spring Lake area and near the Mason County line north of Manito.
June 2015Flash FloodParkland-A narrow band of thunderstorms produced 2.00 to 2.50 of rain on very saturated ground in southern Tazewell County. Numerous rural roads were impassable from south of Pekin through Hopedale and Delavan to the Spring Lake area during the afternoon hours of June 26th.
April 2013FloodParkland-Very heavy rainfall of 3.00 to 5.00 inches resulted in damage to thousands of houses and businesses in the county, including the cities of East Peoria, Pekin, Washington and Morton. Every creek and stream in the western and northern part of the county was flooded. Nearly every road in the flooded area was impassable, including parts of Interstate 74 which had to be closed. Numerous water rescues were made. Mudslides were also reported along the western bluffs along the Illinois River which did damage to a gas station and covered U.S. Highway 150 with several inches of mud. The flash flooding was so significant that creeks stayed in flood and most roads remained closed until the afternoon of April 22nd.
May 2013Flash FloodParkland-Slow moving thunderstorms created rainfall rates of 1.00 to 2.00 inches per hour over already saturated ground due to flash flooding the previous night in southern and eastern Tazewell County. Numerous roads were flooded and one vehicle rescue was made. Rainfall totals from May 30th through the 31st ranged from 4.00 to 7.00 inches.
June 2011Flash FloodParkland-Thunderstorms moved along the Illinois River, producing a band of heavy rainfall in southwest Tazewell County during the early morning hours. More than 2.50 of rain occurred in less than 90 minutes after Midnight LST. Numerous rural roads were impassable.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindParkland-Numerous reports of trees, power poles, and power lines down as a bowecho moved through the south half of Tazewell County. Several outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. Several irrigation rigs were blown over.
May 1995HailParkland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Talbott3.7 miles15
Radville4.6 miles15
Stoehrs5.2 miles18
South Pekin5.7 miles14
Midway6.2 miles18
Powerton6.5 miles18
Hawley (historical)6.7 miles18
Green Valley6.9 miles14

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 ParklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28912640The 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 423055. 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.

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.