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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.

Beaver Creek within Bond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

3 since 2010

Regional 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14061
11 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-019
9 November 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHUELS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keyesport Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keyesport S & G Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Laws PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Munie Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Illinois Route 143 about half a mile west of Illinois Route 127.
February 1999HailBeaver Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bond 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
Dudleyville4.1 miles12
Tamalco5.4 miles12
Hookdale6.0 miles12
Keyesport Landing6.4 miles12
Pierron6.7 miles11
Stubblefield6.8 miles12
Pleasant Mound8.6 miles12
Greenville8.7 miles12

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4878017The 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.