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Conover, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kilbourne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62655. The Survey maps it on the Kilbourne quadrangle.

Conover within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Conover in 2004, burning about 6 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/undetermined1

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
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois River National Wildlife RefugeSPOON RIVER 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conover in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindConover-A few trees were damaged.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Kilbourne1.9 miles15
Long Branch2.9 miles15
Peterville3.2 miles13
Kelsey4.7 miles15
Matanzas5.5 miles15
Lakewood5.8 miles15
Matanzas Beach6.2 miles15
Bath6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422577. 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.