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Cleburne, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Six Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62865. The Survey maps it on the Christopher quadrangle.

Cleburne within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cleburne between 2008 and 2012, burning about 91 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMINES
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARHET
3 March 2011Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILLS
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSOHM
28 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWRIGHT
30 December 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOOPER
22 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMASON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cleburne: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buchner Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleburne in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025HailCleburne-Ping pong ball size hail fell near Cleburne.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Cleburne-A trained spotter reported a very brief tornado. The rural area where this occurred was just east of Illinois 148 and a few miles west-northwest of Orient. No damage was found.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mitchell1.2 miles18
Zeigler2.5 miles18
Christopher2.5 miles18
Urbain2.8 miles18
Buckner3.8 miles18
Cambon3.9 miles18
Mulkeytown3.9 miles18
Plumfield3.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 406237. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.