Developed land accounts for about 100% of the surrounding area.
- Developed land: 100.0%
Railroad crossing 175051U on South 2nd Street in Malta, Illinois
The federal record lists a public crossing on South 2nd Street in Malta, Illinois. The reported railroad is Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Overview
Crossing175051U
South 2nd Street
Malta, De Kalb County, Illinois
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Source retrieved Source details
- Road traffic
- 1,200 vehicles / dayRoad count: counted 2021 · 5 years old. About traffic counts and years
- Reported trains
- 67 / dayThese reported movements are not arrival times.
Location
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- Source latitude
- 41.9304065
- Source longitude
- -88.8635905
Traffic
- Road traffic
- 1,200 vehicles / day
- Road count year
- 2021counted 2021 · 5 years old
- Reported train total
- 67 / day
- Daytime trains
- 32 / day
- Nighttime trains
- 30 / day
- Switching trains
- 5 / day
- Passenger trains
- 61 / day
- School bus route
- No
- School-bus passes
- 0 / school day
- Maximum rail speed
- 70 mph
- Road speed limit
- 30 mph
The daily train total combines reported daytime, nighttime and switching movements. These reported movements are not arrival times. How reported train totals work. A school bus that crosses and returns counts as two passes on a normal school day.
Equipment
- Gate arms
- 2
- Flashing-light pairs
- 4
- Crossbuck assemblies
- 0
- Stop signs
- 0
How warning equipment is recorded
- Main tracks
- 2
- Quiet-zone source value
- No
All equipment counts are reported. Zero is shown only when the source reports zero.
Open the federal crossing recordIncidents
No incident report was matched to this crossing in the available records from 2016 through July 2026. Earlier or unreported incidents may not be included.
Open the federal incident recordsProjects
Project documents
No reviewed document names this crossing
The reviewed sources do not name this crossing. Other projects may exist.
Surroundings
The surrounding landscape
Nearby land cover
The 2025 estimates cover roughly 10 hectares around each crossing.
Population and climate nearby
- Modeled population in this map cell
- 661 · WorldPop 2025
- Regional surface elevation
- 275 m
- Average annual air temperature
- 9.5 °C
- Average annual rain & snow
- 987 mm/year
Regional sample 4.6 km from the reported crossing location. Climate averages cover 1979–2020.
What these figures describe
Population in the map cell comes from a 2025 WorldPop model, grouped into a hexagon containing the reported crossing coordinate. It is not a count of people who use the crossing. Unavailable estimates remain unknown.
Regional values use the nearest sample at roughly 5 km scale. Elevation dates from 2011–2015. They do not describe exact conditions at the crossing.
Sources and methods ↗Nearby records
These records are within 5 km of the reported location. Distances are straight-line estimates.
- Crossing 175050M3RD STREET, Malta, Illinois0.1 km away
- Crossing 175049T4TH STREET, Malta, Illinois0.2 km away
- Crossing 175116KPRIVATE FIELD, Malta, Illinois1.8 km away