Beaver Creek, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62246. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Creek quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Beaver Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek between 2010 and 2014, burning about 47 acres 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 burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14061 |
| 11 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-019 |
| 9 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HUELS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Creek: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keyesport Pit No.1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Keyesport S & G Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Laws Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Munie Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant |
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Creek in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Creek | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Illinois Route 143 about half a mile west of Illinois Route 127. |
| February 1999 | Hail | Beaver Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dudleyville | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Tamalco | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Hookdale | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Keyesport Landing | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pierron | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Stubblefield | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Mound | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Greenville | 8.7 miles | 12 |
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 Beaver Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4878017 | The 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 404057. 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.
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.






