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Eagerville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Cahokia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62023. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gillespie South quadrangle.

Eagerville within Macoupin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

522 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Cahokia Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cahokia Township - 522 words.

Fires near this place

28 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Eagerville between 2008 and 2014, burning about 74 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning1

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
5 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLAKE
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAGARVILLE
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSEIS TRUST
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRT 4
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLAKE
2 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROR
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-000056
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTOWNSHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macoupin 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 Eagerville: 1 occurrence, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gillespie QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin 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
Benld1.7 miles11
Lake Ka-Ho2.1 miles12
Gillespie2.3 miles11
Mount Clare2.4 miles11
East Gillespie2.5 miles11
Sawyerville2.6 miles11
Henderson3.1 miles11
White City3.4 miles11

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 Q33434263The 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 407559. 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.