BlockSaratoga Center, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Saratoga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61491. The Survey maps it on the La Prairie Center quadrangle.
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.
- 1933 USGS Camp Grove quadrangle1:48000
- 1945 USGS Bradford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS La Prairie Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga Center in 2 storm reports in 2011: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2011 | Lightning | Saratoga Center | $300,000 | A thunderstorm shortly after daybreak created a lightning strike which started a house fire in rural western Marshall County. The house and its contents were a total loss. There were no injuries reported. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Saratoga Center | - | Thunderstorms which produced rainfall rates of 1.50 to 2.00 per hour for two hours produced flash flooding of rural roads in a small part of northwest Marshall 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadmoor | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Camp Grove | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Lawn Ridge | 9.7 miles | 21 | |
| Sparland | 10.0 miles | 17 | |
| Hopewell | 11.3 miles | 19 | |
| Lacon | 11.3 miles | 17 | |
| Henry | 12.5 miles | 17 | |
| Wilbern | 18.2 miles | 18 |
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 Q122571114 | 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 423157. 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.