Egyptian Acres, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Creal Springs precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62922. The Survey maps it on the Goreville quadrangle.

Egyptian Acres within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1925 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
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
1966 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Egyptian Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 166 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
27 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	JUNCTION FALLS RD
23 May 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	COPPERHEAD ROAD
28 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BUCK
17 April 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Shawnee National Forest	NAVAJO LANE
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Shawnee National Forest	WEB
20 March 2014	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Shawnee National Forest	HENRY
28 February 1992	Smoking	13 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named
22 February 1992	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Egyptian Acres: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead. 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	Recorded
Shawnee Low Interest Fluorine Deposit	Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working 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
Egypt Shores	0.4 miles	20
Lake Crest	0.4 miles	20
North Shoreline	0.7 miles	20
Lake Estates	1.2 miles	20
Crestwood	1.2 miles	20
Fopal	1.3 miles	20
Clifty Heights	1.4 miles	20
Cedar Hills	1.4 miles	20

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 Q122547013

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 1824161. 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.