BlockChicken Bristle, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Garrett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61953. The Survey maps it on the Tuscola quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1950 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Tuscola SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Garrett township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Douglas Countt
In the early days a principal part of the living was venison. Thomas Goodson once killed two deer with a single ball, on what is now the large farm of William Brian. He also assisted in exterminating the last family of wild cats in the Okaw timber. He relates having cut a large tree for rail timber in the exact spot where he had cut a similar one thirty-six years before, as if the timber is holding its own notwithstanding the large quantities used for fuel and improvement.
In the county-history sources
1,650 words on this townshipHistory of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Garrett Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Garrett Township - 1,650 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chicken Bristle in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 20-0000046 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ficklin | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Garrett | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Parkview | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hayes | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Tuscola | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Northgate | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Yoder Addition | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| North Prairie Acres | 5.3 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.
| Wikipedia article on Chicken Bristle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5096227 | 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 1747779. 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.