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Terre Haute, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Terre Haute Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61454. The Survey maps it on the Stronghurst quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Terre Haute within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terre Haute in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTerre Haute$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph caused some tree damage in the Terre Haute Cemetery just north of Terre Haute, IL and blew a tree down onto a house in Terre Haute, IL around 150 am CDT June 27.
June 2023HailTerre Haute-Three farmers in this area reported quarter size hail, which resulted in crop damage. The time of this report was estimated from radar.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Terre Haute-rated F0.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindTerre Haute-Tree limbs down.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Terre Haute-no account filed
May 1995HailTerre Haute-no account filed
May 1995HailTerre Haute-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Decorra4.3 miles16
Iowa Junction4.4 miles14
Lomax4.9 miles14
Carman6.6 miles14
Yellow Banks6.9 miles14
Stronghurst6.9 miles16
Shokokon7.5 miles14
Heapsville8.0 miles18

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 Terre HauteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7703338The 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 419604. 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.