BlockWhittington, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ewing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62897. It stands on Hamilton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rend Lake Dam quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1939 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Rend Lake Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Rend Lake Dam quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
487 words on this townshipThe Prospects of Franklin County, Illinois, 1912, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Ewing Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Ewing Township - 487 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whittington in 2012, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SESSER4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whittington in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | 1 hurt, $50,000 | Camper trailers were overturned at Wayne Fitzgerald State Park at Rend Lake. One camper was injured. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | $5,000 | Trees were downed by thunderstorm downdraft winds as a storm line moved eastward through Franklin County. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | $3,000 | Emergency management officials reported a tree down across Highway 37. Gusts were estimated near 60 MPH. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto IL-37 near Gun Creek. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Whittington | $2,000 | Hail damaged at least one vehicle on Interstate 57 near the Sesser exit. |
| July 2009 | Heavy Rain | Whittington | - | A spotter reported 0.74 inches of rainfall were received in ten minutes. Water was ponding on Route 37. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph at the Big Muddy Correctional Center. A measured wind gust to 57 mph occurred elsewhere in the county at West Frankfort. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | - | Trees were blown down in an area about one square mile. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Whittington | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Whittington | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittington | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Park | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ewing | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Taylor Hill | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rend City | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Steel City | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Benton | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| West City | 6.8 miles | 18 | |
| Frisco | 6.8 miles | 10 |
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 Whittington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7996897 | 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 421122. 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.