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Wilsman, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61364. The Survey maps it on the Leonore quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Wilsman within LaSalle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wilsman 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsman in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2022FloodWilsman-Flooding was reported along the Vermilion River near East 1251st Road, northeast of Leonore, due to an ice jam.

Every storm recorded in LaSalle 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Leonore2.9 miles11
Altmar2.9 miles11
Milla3.4 miles11
Kangley3.5 miles11
Farm Ridge3.9 miles11
Richards5.1 miles11
Delbert Egan Housing Project5.3 miles11
Garfield6.1 miles11

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 WilsmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22039498The 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 423317. 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.