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Blairsville, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Blairsville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62918. The Survey maps it on the Herrin quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Blairsville within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Blairsville between 1993 and 2019, burning about 44 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/undetermined31
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10163
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10137
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10136
24 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge13
15 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMARINA
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10077
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13058
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10093

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blairsville in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBlairsville$3,000Trees were blown down.
March 2025HailBlairsville-Nickel size hail fell near Blairsville.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hurst1.8 miles18
Cambria2.1 miles18
Bush2.3 miles18
Colp2.3 miles18
Clifford2.6 miles18
Fredonia2.8 miles18
Fredonia (historical)3.0 miles18
Dewmaine3.2 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on BlairsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888502The 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 404547. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.