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Crab Orchard Estates, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Carterville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62901. It lies near McKinney Hill. The Survey maps it on the Carbondale quadrangle.

Crab Orchard Estates within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Crab Orchard Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined29
Smoking15
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeLOSTBRANCH
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism14 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeGOBPOINT
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeGREENBRIAR
25 September 1999Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugePROPELLER2
8 August 1997Smokingunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeCOSPILLWAY
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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 Crab Orchard Estates: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Carbondale City PitStonePast Producer

Every working 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
Fredonia (historical)2.0 miles18
Fredonia2.1 miles18
Cambria2.7 miles18
Carterville3.8 miles18
Crainville4.2 miles18
Dewmaine4.3 miles18
Blairsville4.4 miles18
Colp5.3 miles18

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 Q122551193The 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 406702. 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.