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Burksville Station, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Precinct 8. It lies in ZIP code area 62298. The Survey maps it on the Paderborn quadrangle.

Burksville Station within Monroe 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Burksville Station between 2008 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2016Smoking15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-000018
6 July 2013Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-00008
16 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-000022
9 June 2017Smoking5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesELMER SCHUTHEIS
26 June 2009Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWITTNAVER
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHENERFAULT
17 April 2020Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2000005
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCLARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burksville Station: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Quality Stone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Monroe County PitStonePast Producer
Waterloo PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burksville Station in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 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
February 2023Thunderstorm WindBurksville Station$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
March 2024HailBurksville Station-A swath of large hail up to baseball size fell across portions of east central Monroe County. The large hail was reported in New Design and Hecker, as well as rural areas nearby.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Lemens1.6 miles19
Burksville1.8 miles19
Tipton2.4 miles16
Saint Joe3.1 miles18
Wartburg4.4 miles19
Waterloo5.0 miles19
Foster Pond (historical)6.5 miles19
Maeystown6.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 414393. 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.