Radford, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Prairieton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62550. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Radford within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

7,800 words on this township

History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prairieton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prairieton Township - 7,800 words.

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radford in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 flood. 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 2017	Flood	Radford	-	Rain amounts of 3.00 to 4.00 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Christian County. Numerous streets in Taylorville and Pana were impassable, as were numerous rural roads and highways in the county. The greatest impacts were in the southern part of the county near Morrisonville, where Illinois Route 48 was closed due to flowing water. Additional rain around 1.00 inch, which occurred during the morning hours of the 30th, kept many roads flooded. Areal flooding continued until the early morning hours of May 2nd.
April 2017	Flood	Radford	-	Rain amounts of 3.00 to 4.00 inches in about a two hour period during the evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Christian County. Numerous streets in Taylorville and Pana were impassable, as were numerous rural roads and highways in the county. The greatest impacts were in the southern part of the county near Morrisonville, where Illinois Route 48 was closed due to flowing water. Additional rain around 1.00 inch, which occurred during the morning hours of the 30th, kept many roads flooded. Areal flooding continued until the early morning hours of May 2nd.

Every storm recorded in Christian 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Assumption	4.0 miles	11
Old Stonington	6.4 miles	10
Sandersville	7.0 miles	10
Dunkel	7.7 miles	11
Midway	9.2 miles	11
Stonington	9.4 miles	11
Hewittville	10.1 miles	10
Willeys	10.6 miles	10

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 Q7280143

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 423098. 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.

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.