Braden, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Flannigan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62859. The Survey maps it on the Walpole quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Braden within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

1908 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Walpole quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Braden between 2001 and 2003, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 November 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Tuckers Corners	1.2 miles	19
Olga	2.1 miles	19
Rural Hill	3.1 miles	18
University	4.2 miles	19
West Rural Hill	4.4 miles	18
Flint	4.7 miles	10
Walpole	5.3 miles	19
Hoodville	6.0 miles	10

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 Braden	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16845672	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 422495. 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.