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Yeoward Addition, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Coloma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61071. It stands on Howland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sterling quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Yeoward Addition within Whiteside County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Coloma township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908 - Coloma Township

Forty-Sixth Illinois Infantry

This regiment had its share of hard fighting and hard luck. At the slaughter of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, with Hurlburt's Fourth Division under Grant, one-half of its officers and men were killed, wounded and missing. They were at Corinth in May when Beauregard retired before Halleck, and at the siege of Vicksburg when Grant starved Pemberton into surrender, July 4, 1863.

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In the county-history sources

29,462 words on this township

Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States, published 1885; History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Coloma Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Coloma Township - 29,462 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yeoward Addition between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning2

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
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-369
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-414
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-322
31 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-294
23 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-274

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whiteside County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yeoward Addition: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Nelson Sand & Gravel Pit #2 &Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nelson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Propheter Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rock Falls Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Whiteside Blacktop Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whiteside County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yeoward Addition in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindYeoward Addition2 hurt, $25,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew a semi trailer carrying pretzels onto its side on westbound Interstate 88. Both the driver and passenger suffered minor injuries.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindYeoward Addition-Power lines have been downed by the thunderstorm winds. Time estimated by radar.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindYeoward Addition-A trained spotter reported trees down along Dixon Road. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindYeoward Addition-Direct thunderstorm wind gust measurnment from the Sterling AWOS.
June 2015Tornado (EF1)Yeoward Addition-A large supercell thunderstorm produced significant wind damage as well as two tornadoes in eastern Whiteside counties. This EF1 tornado caused damage to trees, with winds of estimated 105 mph, rated on hardwood tree trunks snapped. This tornado continued in a short path into Lee County.

Every storm recorded in Whiteside 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
Rock Falls2.1 miles12
Sterling2.8 miles12
Woodland Hills2.9 miles12
Douglas Park4.6 miles12
Grimes Addition5.4 miles12
Como5.7 miles11
Galt5.8 miles11
Emerson6.4 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.

Wikidata item Q8052511The 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 421574. 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.