BlockWest Liberty, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62475. The Survey maps it on the Dundas quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1941 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Dundas quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Liberty in 2010, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | RUDOLPHI |
| 14 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CALEB |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Liberty in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | West Liberty | $250,000 | A tornado touched down on the northwest side of West Liberty at 12:25 PM CST, then tracked northeastward before lifting 3.4 miles ENE of West Liberty at 12:29 PM CST. Roof and siding damage occurred to 12 homes, while the roof was completely torn off an older one-story house. A semi-truck was overturned and several trees were uprooted. A barn was destroyed and 2 sheds had their roofs torn off about 1 mile ENE of West Liberty before the tornado dissipated. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Liberty | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and power lines in West Liberty. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| May 2016 | Hail | West Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | West Liberty | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | West Liberty | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raeftown | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Boos | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Shamrock | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Sainte Marie | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Bogota | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Newton | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Willow Hill | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Brookville | 12.9 miles | 13 |
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 West Liberty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7985741 | 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 420868. 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.