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Bakerville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Aetna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62518. The Survey maps it on the Chestnut quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Bakerville within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bakerville between 2006 and 2009, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Natural1

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
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Bakerville: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Eagle-Picher MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Allsopp Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fulk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kenney Pit 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan 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
Chestnut0.9 miles12
Beason5.6 miles12
Narita5.6 miles11
Mount Pulaski5.8 miles14
Skelton6.3 miles14
Latham6.8 miles11
Chestervale6.9 miles14
Lake Fork10.3 miles10

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 BakervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4849321The 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 1816603. 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.