Churchill, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61354. The Survey maps it on the Ladd quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Churchill within Bureau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1893 USGS Lasalle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1911 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1947 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Ladd quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,560 words on this township

Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hall Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hall Township - 1,560 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Churchill between 2014 and 2015, burning about 218 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	3
Debris and open burning	3

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
10 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000049
17 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000065
5 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000044
31 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000034
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000020
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bureau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Churchill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Koob Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Sitterly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau 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
Hegeler	1.2 miles	19
Dalzell	2.1 miles	19
Ladd	2.5 miles	19
Cherry	3.5 miles	19
Webster Park	4.4 miles	19
Spring Valley	4.4 miles	19
Hicks Corners	4.8 miles	19
Ottville	5.3 miles	13

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 Q5118148

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 422551. 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.