Bell, Illinois

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.

• 1911 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Lincoln West quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1996 USGS Lincoln West quadrangle1:24000

History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878; History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Bell between 2008 and 2020, burning about 115 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lincoln
• Burton View
• Evans
• Fogarty
• Lawndale
• Chestervale

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bell: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.

Every working recorded in Logan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422452. 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.