Chamness, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Southern precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chamness within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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 Marion quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Chamness (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were 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	18
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	3
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	PRIMX13611
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10169
7 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTNING SNAG 148
4 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	WOLF
24 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	GRASS
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	MILE MARKER 48
11 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	AREA6
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	OLINFAM1-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Timmons	2.7 miles	20
Hudgens	3.0 miles	20
Neilson	3.5 miles	20
Bainbridge	3.9 miles	20
Marion	4.7 miles	20
Wolf Creek	4.9 miles	23
Sunset Harbor	5.0 miles	20
Kelleys	5.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737352. 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.