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Tamalco, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tamalco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62253. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Mound quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Tamalco within Bond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tamalco in 2010, burning about 13 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDITCH
9 November 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHUELS
3 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRUBEL
8 October 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLANGHAM
17 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEERTRAIL
14 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesAPPLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tamalco: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keyesport Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keyesport S & G Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Laws Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laws PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Munie Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamalco in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Flash FloodTamalco-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Hastings Cemetery Avenue between Mulberry Grove Road and Woburn Road. A woman had to be rescued after driving into the flooded portion of Hastings Cemetery Avenue where Dry Branch Creek overflowed with at least three feet of water flowing over the road at this location. She was not injured.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindTamalco-Local law enforcement reported trees down and outbuildings destroyed.

Every storm recorded in Bond 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Keyesport Landing1.4 miles12
Hookdale4.0 miles12
Beaver Creek5.4 miles12
Pleasant Mound6.4 miles12
Hamburg6.6 miles12
Dudleyville7.6 miles12
Smithboro9.0 miles13
Greenville10.6 miles12

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 TamalcoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7680584The 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 419529. 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.