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Woburn, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mulberry Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62246. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry Grove quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Woburn within Bond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Woburn between 2009 and 2010, burning about 161 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLINKS
1 April 2010Smoking20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWHITE
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROACH
24 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPUSTECHIK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Woburn: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Mccaland Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Old Bond County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pruitt's Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woburn in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWoburn-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs from Woburn to just south of Van Burensburg in extreme northeastern Bond county.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Woburn-The second tornado touched down 1.4 miles northwest of Woburn along Hastings Cemetery Avenue. The tornado caused minor roof damage to one home. Otherwise, most of the damage was to trees before it lifted and dissipated. No injuries were reported.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Woburn-The third and final tornado in Bond County touched down 2.4 miles north of Woburn, just north of the intersection of Woburn Road and Dry Creek Road. There was some damage to a machine shed on a farmstead on Dry Creek Road. Otherwise, the tornado traveled over some forest and mainly open farmland before lifting and dissipating. No injuries were reported.
August 2023HailWoburn-no account filed
May 2002HailWoburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bond 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
Durley2.0 miles13
Smithboro4.3 miles13
Mulberry Grove4.7 miles13
Ayers5.6 miles12
Greenville5.8 miles12
Paisley Corners6.8 miles12
Pleasant Mound7.2 miles12
Hamburg7.4 miles12

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 WoburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8028965The 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 423327. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.