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Denny, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pinckneyville No. 7 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62832. It stands on Little Beaucoup Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pyatts quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Denny within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Denny between 2004 and 2012, burning about 370 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWYNN
19 June 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPYRAMID
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
9 March 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
19 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesENGLEHARDT
18 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
18 March 2005Debris and open burning160 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Denny: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Perry County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perry County Highway Dept.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denny in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flood. 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
April 2008FloodDenny-Half a dozen roads were closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Pinckneyville3.7 miles12
Pyatts3.9 miles12
Holden4.5 miles10
Saint Johns4.7 miles10
Sunfield4.8 miles10
Du Quoin5.4 miles10
Matthews6.1 miles16
Layfield7.0 miles12

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 Q5259145The 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 422618. 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.

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.