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Clifford, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Blairsville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62918. It stands on Little Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herrin quadrangle.

Clifford within Williamson 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

34 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Clifford between 2010 and 2019, burning about 167 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning3

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burning97 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMONROE
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10217
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10211
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10163
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10137
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10136
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10077
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifford in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024HailClifford-Hail measured to quarter size was reported on the north end of a supercell storm ENE of Colp.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Colp1.3 miles18
Sunnyside1.8 miles18
Blairsville2.6 miles18
Chittyville2.7 miles18
Dewmaine3.0 miles18
Herrin3.0 miles18
Bush3.2 miles18
Herrin Junction3.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422564. 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.

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.