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Walnut Prairie, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62477. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Union quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Walnut Prairie within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Prairie: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 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
Clark County Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kuykendall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lawrence East & West DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stanfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Prairie in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWalnut Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
West Union1.7 miles14
Snyder2.9 miles15
Choctaw4.1 miles15
Darwin4.1 miles20
York4.9 miles14
Ernst5.3 miles15
Melrose5.3 miles14
Allright5.9 miles15

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 PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7963647The 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 420478. 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.

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.