BlockBenton Park, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ewing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62812. It stands on Marcum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rend Lake Dam quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1939 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Rend Lake Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Rend Lake Dam quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
487 words on this townshipThe Prospects of Franklin County, Illinois, 1912, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Ewing Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Ewing Township - 487 words.
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Benton Park between 2009 and 2012, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SESSER4 |
| 23 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BENDER |
| 15 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAVIDSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whittington | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ewing | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rend City | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Benton | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Steel City | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| West City | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Hickory Corners | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Groat | 6.8 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 425689. 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.