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Emerson City, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bald Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62883. The Survey maps it on the Waltonville quadrangle.

Emerson City within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

2,227 words on this township

History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883; Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bald Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bald Hill Township - 2,227 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Emerson City between 2009 and 2020, 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3

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
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesNONE
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSESSER3
23 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTLAUTH
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesILL
27 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILLER
25 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesOLD BEN
16 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGOESSMAN
4 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-03045

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Fitzgerrell (historical)1.7 miles12
Scheller4.2 miles12
Waltonville4.8 miles12
Nason4.8 miles11
Dareville5.5 miles11
Williamsburg6.1 miles12
Ina7.5 miles11
Bonnie8.7 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 Q122593441The 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 422669. 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.