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East Village, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Macomb City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61455. It lies near Wigwam Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Macomb quadrangle.

East Village within McDonough County

On record in East Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of East Village in 2008, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Natural1

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
26 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources45
30 May 2008Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources27
5 April 2008Debris and open burning25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSILBERER
14 March 2008Debris and open burning15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBROWN
14 March 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonough County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Village: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Mcdonough Hwy PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonough 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
University Village0.0 miles20
Macomb0.5 miles20
Lamone Village1.1 miles20
Georgetown2.1 miles20
Little Ireland (historical)3.1 miles20
Bardolph6.4 miles16
Good Hope6.5 miles17
Colchester6.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1824351. 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.