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Coello, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Tyrone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62825. The Survey maps it on the Christopher quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Coello 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

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Coello between 2001 and 2009, burning about 17 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/undetermined14
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
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
14 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILLER
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARHET
19 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTEFFINS
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSOHM
9 February 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named

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 Coello: 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

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
Christopher1.7 miles18
Valier2.0 miles11
Urbain2.0 miles18
Valier Patch2.8 miles11
Buckner2.8 miles18
Mulkeytown2.8 miles18
Hickory Corners3.4 miles18
Meyer3.9 miles11

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 Q33430738The 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 406320. 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.