BlockCarpenter, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hamel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62025. It stands on Sherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prairietown quadrangle.
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.
- 1927 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Prairietown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Prairietown quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter between 2001 and 2014, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HENDRICKS1 |
| 27 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14047 |
| 5 December 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carpenter in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. One tree fell onto a barn and another onto a home causing moderate damage. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Carpenter | - | Thunderstorms remained stationary over eastern Madison County for several hours. Up to 7 inches of rain fell during this time. There were numerous reports of flash flooding. The most serious flash flooding was at the interchange of Interstate 55 and Illinois Route 140 in Hamel. The interstate was flooded at the underpass, especially the north bound lanes. Several feet of water was in this location with several cars stuck in the flood waters. Traffic had to be diverted off the highway for a time until the flood waters went down. Also, in Marine 6.80 inches of rain fell. Numerous roads in town were flooded as well as Illinois Route 143 and Illinois Route 4. Illinois Route 143 was flooded west of Marine because the heavy rainfall caused the lake on the northwest side of town to overflow and spill into a nearby creek, which rose and flooded Route 143. |
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 405620. 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.