Challacombe, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chesterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62063. It stands on Coop Branch. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

Challacombe within Macoupin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1925 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1928 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,148 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Chesterfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

William Duckies and wife came here in 1834 from Yorkshire, England, and established a home on section n. Other early settlers were: John Richardson, who settled on section 22, in 1831 ; John Armour, who came here from Kentucky in 1828; P. R. Gillespie, who settled on section 24, in the year 1823; J. H. Williams, who came in 1837; J. R. Cundall, who located on section 9 in the year 1834; and Nicholas Challacombe, who came here from Devonshire, England in 1840, settling on section 21. He became a prominent farmer and stock-raiser.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Chesterfield Township.

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Challacombe in 2007, burning about 15 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	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
17 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macoupin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Summerville	2.0 miles	12
Medora	3.2 miles	12
Chesterfield	4.0 miles	11
Hagaman	6.7 miles	11
Piasa	7.1 miles	12
Reader	7.4 miles	11
Shipman	8.1 miles	12
Plainview	8.1 miles	12

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 Q101808343

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 422539. 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.