Eden Park, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in West Marion precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62948. The Survey maps it on the Herrin quadrangle.

Eden Park within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1910 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 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 Herrin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Eden Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined	28
Smoking	8
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	GOBPOINT
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	97 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	MONROE
28 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10217
25 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	PROPELLER2
7 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTNING SNAG 148
24 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	GRASS
11 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	AREA6
7 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Energy	1.3 miles	18
Bainbridge	2.2 miles	20
Crainville	2.3 miles	18
Crenshaw Crossing	2.7 miles	18
Carterville	2.8 miles	18
Dewmaine	3.3 miles	18
Herrin	3.3 miles	18
Sunnyside	3.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 407768. 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.