BlockDepler Springs, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lewistown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61542. The Survey maps it on the Lewistown quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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 Havana quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Lewistown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Havana quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
20,657 words on this townshipHistory of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Lewistown Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Lewistown Township - 20,657 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Depler Springs in 2019, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-020 |
| 19 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-018 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewistown | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Cuba | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Bryant | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Fulton Center (historical) | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Smithfield | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Duncan Mills | 6.4 miles | 19 | |
| Keeler (historical) | 6.8 miles | 19 | |
| Sepo | 7.1 miles | 19 |
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 Depler Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5260662 | 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 424178. 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.