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Creal Springs, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Creal Springs precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62922. It stands on Maple Branch. The Survey maps it on the Creal Springs quadrangle. 505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Creal Springs within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Creal Springs fell from 543 to 505 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010543
2020505-38 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Creal Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresShawnee National ForestPARKER CITY
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13165
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10165
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestJUNCTION FALLS RD
23 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestCOPPERHEAD ROAD
9 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10081
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresShawnee National ForestBUCK
17 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresShawnee National ForestNAVAJO LANE

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 Creal Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Treadwater Shale QuarryClayPast 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
Sulphur Springs (historical)1.0 miles19
Willeford2.7 miles20
Palzo4.4 miles20
Lake Crest4.4 miles20
Egyptian Acres4.5 miles20
North Shoreline4.5 miles20
Egypt Shores4.7 miles20
Lake Estates5.0 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 Creal SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575193The 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 424793. 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.