BlockProspect, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ludlow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61866. The Survey maps it on the Rantoul quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1924 USGS Paxton quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Paxton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paxton quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Paxton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Rantoul quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Prospect in 2014, burning about 50 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/undetermined | 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 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 77 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prospect in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prospect | $60,000 | Fifteen power poles were knocked down along U.S. Route 136 near Rantoul. Several semi-trailers were also blown over. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Prospect | $50,000 | Slow moving, persistent thunderstorms produced 2.00 to 3.00 of rain in a small part of north central Champaign County. The heaviest rainfall and flash flooding was reported from Rantoul through Thomasboro to just northeast of Urbana. Parts of U.S. Highway 45 from Rantoul to Thomasboro were impassable. The Thomasboro Fire Department reported a bridge washed out over the Saline Branch west of the town. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prospect | - | A large tree branch was blown down just north of US-136. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Prospect | - | Multiple roads in the city of Rantoul were closed due to high water. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Prospect | - | 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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q7250717 | 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 423089. 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.