BlockDelta, Illinois
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Carrier Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62987. It stands on Brier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carrier Mills quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Carrier Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Carrier Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 2010 and 2020, burning about 23 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10194 |
| 9 April 2013 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13063 |
| 17 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10094 |
| 8 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10054 |
| 20 February 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.2 acres | Shawnee National Forest | ORCHARD FIRE |
| 19 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WARD CEMETARY |
| 13 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10327 |
| 13 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10328 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saline | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Newcastle | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Carrier Mills | 3.7 miles | 22 | |
| Oldtown | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| Ledford | 6.1 miles | 20 | |
| Liberty | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| New Hope | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Buena Vista | 7.7 miles | 20 |
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 Q5254527 | The 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 422615. 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.