Birch Island, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Gilead precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62006. It lies near Kintown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Birch Island within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1930 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Birch Island in 1996, burning about 1 acre 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
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
6 October 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Birch Island: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kritesville Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect
Calhoun Cty Hwy Dept	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Calhoun Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ray & Briscoe / Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Star City	0.4 miles	15
Gilead	0.9 miles	15
Kritesville	2.4 miles	15
Hardin	3.8 miles	14
Turner Landing	4.3 miles	15
Batchtown	6.9 miles	15
Hamburg	7.1 miles	15
Michael	7.8 miles	14

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 Q4915668

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 422464. 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.