Binney, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62074. The Survey maps it on the New Douglas quadrangle.

Binney within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Binney between 2010 and 2016, burning about 16 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	7
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	OLIVE1
9 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BACKYARD
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MADISON
22 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	GOODMAN
11 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	LIVINGSTON
22 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	HENRY
13 February 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	REZY RD
2 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	I55 @ 337MM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Williamson	2.0 miles	15
Livingston	2.5 miles	15
New Douglas	3.5 miles	11
Alhambra	7.0 miles	11
Green Castle	7.1 miles	11
Worden	7.2 miles	15
Kaufman	9.2 miles	14
Hamel	9.4 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122552710

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 422463. 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.