Birkner, 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.

• 1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
• 1931 USGS French Village quadrangle1:24000
• 1935 USGS French Village quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS French Village quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1998 USGS French Village quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Belleville city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881 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 42 fires within 5 miles of Birkner between 2008 and 2014, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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:

• Alorton
• Lake Siding
• Briar Hill
• Bunkum
• Caseyville
• Centreville

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Birkner: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 St. Clair County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426271. 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.