BlockRapatee, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Maquon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61544. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1912 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,621 words on this townshipHistory of Knox County, Illinois, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Maquon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
There was no school-house built for 12 years after the town was laid out, and Mr. Nathan Barbero fitted up and furnished schoolrooms for the accommodation of the pupils and kept them in repair, rent free. The first school was taught by Harriet Hainlin in 1839. The first school-house was erected in 1848. The present school building is of wood, 54 by 36 feet, contains 3 large school-rooms, was erected in 1866, at a cost of about $9,000. Maquon was incorporated
Passage source: History of Knox County, Illinois, published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rapatee in 2013, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 40513 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rapatee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Downing Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rapatee in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rapatee | - | Several trees were snapped. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rapatee | - | Numerous trees blown down. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Rapatee | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Rapatee | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Rapatee | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniontown | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bridgeport (historical) | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Maquon | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Douglas | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Burnside (historical) | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Yates City | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Hermon | 9.0 miles | 18 | |
| Gilson | 10.4 miles | 16 |
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 Rapatee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7293861 | 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 416393. 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.