Arpee, Illinois

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.

• 1935 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1935 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:48000
• 1941 USGS Keithsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Joy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Joy quadrangle1:24000

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

History of Mercer County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc., Gathered from Mattter Furnished by the Mercer County Historical Society, Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Containing Also a Short History of Henderson County, published 1882; Past and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Arpee between 2013 and 2016, 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Keithsburg
• New Boston
• Ogle

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arpee: 1 occurrence. None of them 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.

Every working recorded in Mercer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422417. 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.