BlockWinkle, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Swanwick precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62237. The Survey maps it on the Winkle quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1924 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Winkle quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Winkle in 2018, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | VALENTINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winkle in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Hail | Winkle | - | Golfball size hail fell along Highway 13 between Pinckneyville and Coulterville. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Winkle | - | Water was over roadways around the county. Many rural roads were closed due to high water over them. Flash flooding occurred on U.S. Route 51 in DuQuoin. In Pinckneyville, three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in less than thirty minutes. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swanwick | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Layfield | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Conant | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Rice | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Jamestown | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pinckneyville | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Todds Mill | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cutler | 9.1 miles | 13 |
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 Winkle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8025477 | 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 423323. 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.