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Woodvale, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spring Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61453. The Survey maps it on the Little York quadrangle.

Woodvale within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

In the county-history sources

5,838 words on this township

Portrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Spring Grove Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Spring Grove Township - 5,838 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodvale: 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Monmouth Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodvale in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 2 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodvale-Local law enforcement reported large tree branches were down across the road 1 mile north of Lake Warren.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Shaw1.6 miles11
Spring Grove (historical)1.7 miles11
Alexis Junction3.0 miles11
Gerlaw3.4 miles18
Denny (historical)3.5 miles18
Eleanor3.9 miles18
Alexis5.4 miles10
Little York5.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423335. 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.

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.