Dry Hill, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Kinkaid Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62907. The Survey maps it on the Raddle quadrangle.

Dry Hill within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1916 USGS Campbell Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1918 USGS Campbell Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Raddle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Raddle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dry Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
11 August 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BRIDGE
17 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	JOHNSON CREEK
24 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TURN AROUND
19 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	JOHNSON CREEK 2
17 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	HAY BALE
13 June 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BLUFFS
29 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	JOHNSON CREEK
14 April 1992	Smoking	22 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dry Hill: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Campbell Hill Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jackson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glenn	1.7 miles	23
Raddle	3.2 miles	23
Crain	3.5 miles	23
Jones Ridge	4.0 miles	23
Jacob	5.1 miles	28
Degognia	5.1 miles	23
Ava	5.8 miles	17
Cora	6.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422637. 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.