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Corinth, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Corinth precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62974. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Corinth within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 2009 and 2013, burning about 92 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning2

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
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10208
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10079
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10087
8 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10055
7 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA3
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10050
26 December 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13233
9 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10313

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinth in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCorinth$20,000Siding and roofing was torn off a small church. Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCorinth$15,000Roofing on an outbuilding collapsed and large tree branches were broken. The survey identified the damage as resulting from straight-line winds.
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Corinth$7,000The tornado touched down a few miles east of Corinth, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Some shingles were blown off a well-built house. The tornado gained intensity in Saline County, where it attained its peak EF-2 rating. The tornado was on the ground in Williamson County for only a few minutes before moving into Saline County.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCorinth$5,000Several trees and one outbuilding were damaged.
March 2010Heavy RainCorinth-Water was over the road in several places. Crab Orchard Creek flooded a road about one to two miles southwest of Corinth.
April 2009Heavy RainCorinth-Water was over a road.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Corinth-The tornado continued into Williamson County from Franklin County. There was a swath of downed trees in rural areas. Peak winds around 90 mph occurred in the Franklin County portion of the track.

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
Halfway2.5 miles17
Attila3.4 miles17
Banklick4.0 miles18
Paulton4.1 miles17
Pittsburg4.8 miles17
Rileyville5.9 miles18
Hartford6.0 miles18
Crab Orchard6.4 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on CorinthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5170620The 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 406585. 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.