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Aden, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Crouch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62895. The Survey maps it on the Bungay quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Aden within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Aden in 2017, burning under an acre 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 burning1

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
17 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2017018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aden in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2011: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodAden$30,000no account filed
April 2011FloodAden-no account filed
March 2002HailAden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Garrison3.3 miles10
Bungay5.1 miles9
Blairsville5.1 miles9
Belle Prairie City5.3 miles10
New London (historical)5.8 miles9
Jefferson City (historical)6.3 miles9
Piopolis6.8 miles10
Thackeray8.4 miles9

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 AdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4682146The 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 422386. 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.