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Boskydell, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Makanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62903. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carbondale quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Boskydell within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Boskydell between 1997 and 2016, burning about 26 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 1997Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeCOSPILLWAY
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeSPILLWAY
3 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeARROW FIRE
2 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeDREW
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresShawnee National ForestMEADOW RIDGE ROAD
8 March 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeFALCON
15 March 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestCEDAR
19 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRIGHTAWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boskydell: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carbondale City PitStonePast Producer
Springvale Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boskydell in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2011FloodBoskydell$350,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Boskydell$2,000An EF-1 tornado (max of EF-0 in Jackson County) began southeast of Carbondale at Giant City Rd. Several large tree limbs were downed on Wagon Wheel Road and County Line Rd as the tornado crossed into Williamson County. Peak winds for the Jackson County portion of this tornado were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2024Funnel CloudBoskydell-A funnel cloud was spotted in a developing supercell storm. A tornado would later be produced from this storm further east.
August 2016Flash FloodBoskydell-A trained spotter reported 1.5 feet of water over a secondary road south of Carbondale leading to Giant City State Park. A rainfall amount of 3.49 inches was measured at a nearby fire station between midnight and 6:45 P.M. CST.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindBoskydell-A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph at a school just south of Carbondale off U.S. Highway 51.
February 2012HailBoskydell-no account filed
April 2011HailBoskydell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Evergreen Terrace2.3 miles22
Southern Hills2.3 miles22
Stone Fort3.4 miles21
Makanda3.7 miles21
Carbondale3.9 miles22
Etherton5.8 miles23
Eltham (historical)6.4 miles23
Pomona7.2 miles23

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 BoskydellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687415The 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 404705. 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.

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.