Walz, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Danville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61834. The Survey maps it on the Danville NE quadrangle.

Walz within Vermilion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1899 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1950 USGS Danville NE quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Danville NE quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Danville NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

73,461 words on this township

History of Vermilion County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Danville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

George Walz, Danville, furniture dealer and undertaker, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, on the 1st of October, 1830, and is the son of Martin Walz, who was a farmer. Here, on the farm, Mr. Walz remained until he was sixteen years of age. He then learned the cabinet-maker's trade near his native home. At twent}'-one years of age he enlisted in the German army and served for three years. In 1854 he emigrated to America, and landed in New York city with but little money. He worked at his trade in New York, Philadelphia, Mauch Chunk, St. Louis and Pike county, Illinois. In Williamsport he first embarked for himself in the furniture business. He came to Danville and commenced business in 1864, and here he has gradually improved his stock so that to-day he ranks among the leading houses of this vicinity. He occupies two rooms and has in his employ four men. Mr. Walz is also doing a very extensive business in the undertaking line, owning a tine hearse, and he is now prepared to do this business at any time. Mr. Walz was married in Danville, in 1864, to Miss Fredericka Steebe, of Germany, who came to America when she was a child. By this marriage they have live children.

Passage source: History of Vermilion County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Danville Township.

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Walz between 2004 and 2013, burning about 16 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
23 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	DANVILLE
19 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 December 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	JORDAN1
8 October 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	HUGHES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vermilion County

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 Walz: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Danville Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Sand Valley Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thomas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tucker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Vermilion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Newell	2.0 miles	19
Beeler Terrace	3.1 miles	19
Danville	3.4 miles	20
Campbell	3.8 miles	19
South Danville	4.0 miles	20
Wyton	4.1 miles	19
Denmark (historical)	4.4 miles	19
Illiana	4.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423285. 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.