BlockWalnut Grove, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Prairie City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61470. The Survey maps it on the Bushnell West quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1916 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Bushnell West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove in 2013, burning about 39 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 | Debris and open burning | 37 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 201327 |
| 1 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 201330 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Grove in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Grove | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph tossed a grain bin onto the highway and power lines about 1.5 miles southeast of Walnut Grove, IL around 753 pm June 27. A barn in the area was also destroyed with debris tossed about a half mile into the field. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Grove | - | Three power poles were blown down. Time was estimated by radar. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Walnut Grove | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of Route 41 north of Bushnell, IL during the evening of June 23. The highway had to be closed due to the flooding. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Walnut Grove | - | Along the Warren/McDonough County line. |
| April 2006 | Heavy Rain | Walnut Grove | - | 2 inches of rain with storms. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsburg | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Prairie City | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Bushnell | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Good Hope | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Bardolph | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| New Philadelphia | 9.9 miles | 18 | |
| Sciota | 10.9 miles | 16 | |
| Lamone Village | 11.9 miles | 20 |
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 Walnut Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20709817 | 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 423283. 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.