BlockPhelps, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lenox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61462. The Survey maps it on the Berwick quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1921 USGS Monmouth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Monmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Berwick quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Berwick quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,880 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Lenox Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
J. W. Bond and family were the first settlers in the township. They came in 1833 and located on section 18. (See biography). Seth Murphy and Ephraim Smith came in 1836, the former settling on section 35 and the latter on section 36. With them came their families. Mr. Murphy was from Kentucky and Mr. Smith from Ohio. Mr. Murphy died at the old homestead, and his wife in Monmouth. Mrs. Smith died on the old farm, and her husband moved to Abingdon, where he died a few years ago. Porter Plielps and family, from New York, moved into the township in 1837, and located on section 2, where, after a long life of usefulness, he died on the i4th day of April, 1885. His wife, Mary Ellen Phelps, died July 26, 1884. They reared a family of eight children, six of whom are still living. Mr. Phelps was a prominent man, not only in his township but also in the county. He was an ardent patriot and a true hearted Christian, having a passionate love for liberty, home and his country. He was an intellectual man, fond of study, and books of poetry, philosophy and metaphysics. With a warm and tender heart, and strong attachments for his friends and neighbors, lie died regretted by all who knew him, in his 82d year. (See biography).
This township is watered by the Henderson Branch and its tributaries, which heads in section 10, running westerly, and Cedar Creek, which runs southeasterly. The nature of the land is rolling, with level prairies. There never was much timber in the township, and there is hardly an acre of ground which cannot be easily plowed. The principal grains are oats, hay and corn. The latter is cultivated extensively. It is probably the largest grain-producing townshipin the county. Certainly there is no township that can present any finer farms, farm buildings and dwellings. There are two railroad stations in the township, Phelps and Larchland, which afford the people mail facilities, trading and shipping.-
There is a station on the Iowa Central R. R. line, in this township, on section 13, named after Hon. Delos P. Phelps, who is prominently connected with this road. The first freight train stopping at Phelps was from Peoria, and it arrived April 16, 1883, and discharged a car load of lumber. The Methodist Church has an organization here, holding their meetings in the school house, near the station. Services
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Lenox Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Phelps in 2014, burning about 17 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 | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-341 |
| 9 April 2014 | Smoking | 9.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-235 |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-264 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phelps in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 423066. 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.