BlockRoxbury, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Wyoming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61353. The Survey maps it on the Compton quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1952 USGS Mendota quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Compton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Dixon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Compton quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Wyoming township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Cyclone Of 1890
"The first account of this frightful visitation is from a point twelve to fifteen miles, a little south of west from the village of Sublette, at what is known as the Blackburn Herd, where a number of cattle were killed; from there it took an easterly direction, a little north in a zig-zag course, from twenty to forty rods wide, mowing everytlung before it.
In the county-history sources
68,500 words on this townshipHistory of Lee County, published 1881; History of Lee County, Illinois, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Wyoming Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Wyoming Township - 68,500 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Roxbury in 2008, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2 |
| 4 April 2008 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | Over ten tall wooden utility poles were blown down, just west of Interstate 39. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Roxbury | - | Based on trained spotter reports, a brief tornado occurred just east of Interstate 39, southwest of Paw Paw. No damage was reported. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | - | Sustained winds of 55 mph with gusts to 65 mph lasting for 10 minutes were estimated by a storm chaser along Interstate 39, west of Paw Paw. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compton | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| The Burg | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Paw Paw | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Melugin Grove (historical) | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Twelvemile Corner | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Welland | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| East Paw Paw | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Scarboro | 5.6 miles | 11 |
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 Q7372404 | 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 423137. 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.