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Baldwin Heights, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 62801. The Survey maps it on the Irvington quadrangle.

Baldwin Heights within Jefferson 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Baldwin Heights in 2004, 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 July 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Cravat3.3 miles9
Jefferson City7.3 miles9
Boyd7.4 miles9
Roaches9.3 miles9
Woodlawn10.2 miles9
Dix11.0 miles12
Drivers11.5 miles12
Idlewood12.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403857. 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.