BlockWhite Oak, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bois D'Arc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62558. The Survey maps it on the Pawnee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1922 USGS Divernon quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Divernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Pawnee quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Oak in 2008, burning under an 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILE 82 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Oak in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Oak | $12,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a road sign over near the north bound lanes of I-55 about 4 miles north of Farmersville. Also, a semi was blown over on I-55 just north of Farmersville. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | White Oak | - | Emergency management relayed a report of a brief tornado just northeast of intersection of Black Diamond Trail and North 35th Avenue. The tornado occurred over a field, resulting in no observed damage. The tornado was rated EFU (Unknown) with a path length 0.2 miles and max path width of 10 yards. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | White Oak | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 16 about a mile northeast of Irving and viaducts in Hillsboro and Raymond. |
| May 2023 | Hail | White Oak | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | White Oak | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | White Oak | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomasville | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Farmersville | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Waggoner | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Harvel | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Raymond | 13.1 miles | 13 | |
| Zanesville | 13.6 miles | 10 | |
| Shop Creek | 16.6 miles | 10 | |
| Honey Bend | 17.8 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423305. 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.