BlockWhite Heath, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sangamon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61884. It stands on Madden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresWhite Heath fell from 290 to 251 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 290 | |
| 2020 | 251 | -39 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1937 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
852 words on this townshipHistory of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Sangamon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
White Heath. - Mr. Porter Heath bought the land White Heath was laid out on of Mr. Frank White, and for a stock company. We suppose the town was named in honor of these two gentlemen. The town was laid out about 1872, and Mr. Heath thinks that James Webster put up the first dwelling-house in the town, and he was also the first postmaster. Miss Frank and Mr. Vin. Williams put up the first hotel and opened the first store of the place. Dr. Unangst and Dr. Henrie are the only physicians who have located in the town. At present there are five or six business firms in White Heath. The Methodist Episcopal church was built several years ago. The town is in a good location, botli in regard to railroad facilities and the situation of the ground.
Passage source: History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883.
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 Sangamon Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of White Heath in 2008, burning about 1 acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WF1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of White Heath: 2 producers. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monticello Quality Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Shady Rest Pit ??? | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Heath in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 | White Heath | $30,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Heath | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Heath | $15,000 | Several trees were snapped near White Heath. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Heath | $8,000 | A 2-foot diameter tree was blown down onto a house 1 mile north of White Heath. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Heath | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto some power lines 1 mile northeast of White Heath. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| May 2014 | Hail | White Heath | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | White Heath | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerville | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Lodge | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Monticello | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Galesville | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Combs | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| De Land | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mansfield | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Amenia | 9.3 miles | 14 |
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 White Heath | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3471912 | 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 421042. 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.
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.