Bakers Crossroads, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Grassy precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62958. The Survey maps it on the Crab Orchard Lake quadrangle.

Bakers Crossroads within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1922 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Crab Orchard Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1996 USGS Crab Orchard Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Bakers Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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
Smoking	14
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	LOSTBRANCH
28 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKLINE#17
28 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKLINE#17R
28 September 1999	Smoking	2.2 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKLINE#4
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10169
4 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	WOLF
11 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	ROCKYCOMF1
9 July 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKSPILLWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wolf Creek	3.3 miles	23
Chamness (historical)	7.5 miles	20
Neilson	8.2 miles	20
Kelleys	8.4 miles	20
Crab Orchard Estates	8.6 miles	22
Crainville	8.9 miles	18
Sleepy Hollow	9.0 miles	20
Woodland Hills	9.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737343. 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.