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Evarts, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ridott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61067. It lies near Bunker Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ridott quadrangle.

Evarts within Stephenson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

21,578 words on this township

The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : Containing ... Biographical Sketches ... War Record ... Statistics ... Portraits of Early Settlers ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, &c. .., published 1880; History of Stephenson County, Illinois : a Record of Its Settlement, Organization, and Three-quarters of a Century of Progress, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ridott Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ridott Township - 21,578 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Evarts between 2010 and 2017, burning about 3 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-0000102
5 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1845
26 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1030
12 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000035
8 October 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-0000111

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephenson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Evarts: 7 past producers. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Denekas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kruse QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Meyers PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ridott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stephenson 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
Ridott Corners1.5 miles16
Hunt Corners1.8 miles16
German Valley2.6 miles14
Ridott3.0 miles16
Woodruff Corners3.0 miles16
Browns Mill3.2 miles15
Valley Creek (historical)3.6 miles15
South Freeport5.3 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on EvartsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60756057The 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 422680. 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.