BlockCastle Junction, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Bowling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61264. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 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.
- 1912 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Castle Junction between 2008 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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 | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | IDNR2 |
| 11 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | IDNR |
| 30 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | UNION |
| 11 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | EAST |
| 5 July 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILAN |
| 31 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILAN3 |
| 30 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | TOBIAS |
| 3 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 528 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Castle Junction: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allied Stone Plant #30 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Milan Quarry, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coyne Center | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Oak Grove | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Ginger Hill | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Milan | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Taylor Ridge | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Fruitland | 6.3 miles | 23 | |
| Reynolds | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Coal Valley | 6.7 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q101808067 | 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 405693. 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.