Chestline, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Beverly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62347. It stands on Lanes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fishhook quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Chestline within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fishhook quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chestline between 2009 and 2015, burning about 93 acres in total. 1 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
27 September 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	KLASUSER
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	READIN
27 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	4272015
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	3312015
28 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	3282015
23 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	3232015
23 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	COR
20 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	32020152

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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
Spring Valley	3.7 miles	11
Beverly	3.9 miles	11
Kingston	4.1 miles	11
Kellerville	6.1 miles	11
Liberty	8.2 miles	11
Richfield	8.5 miles	11
Plainville	12.6 miles	11
Adams	12.7 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Chestline	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4514920	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 422546. 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.