BlockCamp Point, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Camp Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62320. The Survey maps it on the Camp Point quadrangle.
On record in Camp Point
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
F. D. Thomas Houselisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Camp Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Camp Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Camp Point quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Camp Point between 2013 and 2015, burning about 57 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014023 |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015017 |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014024 |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014020 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015014 |
| 30 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015013 |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014019 |
| 23 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014016 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Point in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Point | $500 | The county sheriff's office reported trees and power lines down in Quincy. Winds gusted to 69 mph at Quincy Municipal Airport and 65 mph at Camp Point. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 405492. 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.