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Brook Lawn, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Western Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61273. The Survey maps it on the Coal Valley quadrangle.

Brook Lawn within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

9,011 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877; Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Western Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Western Township - 9,011 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brook Lawn in 2008, burning under an 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/undetermined1

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
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Sunny Hill Estates1.1 miles14
Sunny Hill1.1 miles14
Timber Ridge2.7 miles14
Warner2.7 miles14
Orion4.7 miles12
Briar Bluff4.7 miles12
Green Rock5.6 miles12
Colona6.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 425989. 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.