BlockWinkel, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Malone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61734. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Natrona quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1942 USGS Delavan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Natrona quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
4,040 words on this townshipHistory of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Malone Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Malone Township - 4,040 words.
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Winkel between 2017 and 2018, burning about 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 087-18 |
| 20 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 076-17 |
| 29 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 132-17 |
| 26 October 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 098-18 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winkel in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Winkel | $240,000 | Persistent thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall during the late afternoon and early evening hours when 4.00 to 8.00 inches was reported in 3. to 4 hours. Numerous roads in southern and eastern Tazewell County were flooded, including parts of I-155 two to four miles north of the Tazewell-Logan County line. Cars which hydroplaned on the water covered roads slid into ditches along the interstate. Parts of Illinois Route 122 were also impassable from Delavan through Hopedale to Minier. Most of the flash flooding subsided by late evening. |
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Winkel | $175,000 | A tornado touched down along Wagonseller Road about 5 miles southwest of Green Valley at 12:00 AM CST March 7th. The tornado quickly tracked northeastward and widened to around 150 yards and increased in intensity to EF-1 as it destroyed an outbuilding and an historic single room schoolhouse about 4 miles southwest of Green Valley. It then continued moving northeastward through mainly open fields, but did produce damage to 2 grain bins, a barn, and several trees along Towerline Rd. The tornado dissipated about 3 miles east-northeast of Green Valley at 12:06 AM CST. |
| March 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Winkel | - | This tornado crossed from Mason County into southwestern Tazewell County south of the intersection of Jacobs Road and Nichols Road at 12:11 AM CDT March 11th. The tornado continued northeastward to about 1 mile west of Green Valley where it snapped 8 power poles before dissipating at 12:15 AM CDT. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winkel | - | An 8-inch diameter tree was blown down near the intersection of Wagonseller Road and Illinois Route 29. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Green Valley | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Delavan | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Brownwood | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Parkland | 10.1 miles | 15 | |
| South Pekin | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Dillon | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Boynton | 10.4 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 Winkel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20711031 | 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 423322. 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.