Farrington, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Wabash Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62423. The Survey maps it on the Dennison quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Farrington within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1932 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Dennison quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Dennison quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Dennison quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Farrington between 2001 and 2005, burning about 39 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Patton	0.8 miles	19
Dennison	2.8 miles	19
McKeen	3.7 miles	19
Weaver	4.6 miles	19
Griffin (historical)	6.0 miles	15
Livingston	6.9 miles	15
Golf Lakes	7.9 miles	15
Fox Run	8.4 miles	15

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 Q5436296

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 422693. 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.