Elba Center, Illinois

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.

• 1941 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Yates City quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

History of Knox County, Illinois, published 1878; Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Elba Center between 2004 and 2018, burning about 26 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eugene
• Yates City
• Douglas

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elba Center: 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.

Every working recorded in Knox County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422660. 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.