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Fayville, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Thebes precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62990. It lies near Black Powder Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Thebes quadrangle. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Fayville within Alexander County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fayville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
3 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBEAN
9 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestMT. ZION
6 March 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresShawnee National ForestGREGG HOLLOW
26 March 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresShawnee National ForestLITTLE RED HOUSE
23 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesASHMAN
28 February 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresShawnee National ForestGREG HOLLOW
20 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHILL
17 February 1998Debris and open burning15 acresShawnee National ForestPIGEON ROOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alexander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Fayville: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Shawnee Special Use Silica Deposit 3SilicaOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Miss.River Shale ExposureClayProspect
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ellis PorpertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alexander County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Flash FloodFayville$50,000A major breach occurred in the Fayville levee. Despite widespread sandbagging, there was flash flooding across parts of central Alexander County. The communities of Miller City, Olive Branch, and Willard were impacted. Floodwaters covered sections of Illinois Route 3. Many homes and businesses were flooded. Olive Branch was inaccessible, and portions of Illinois Routes 3 and 37 were closed.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Fayville$25,000An EF-1 tornado began near the Mississippi River a mile northwest of Fayville, and moved east northeast. The tornado uprooted or snapped the trunks of dozens of trees and toppled an irrigation pivot. It moved into Pulaski County just northeast of Sandusky. The estimated peak wind was 105 mph. The total path length of the tornado was around 18 miles. A large area of 70-90 mph straight line winds swept just south of the tornado and eventually overtook it as it moved east of Interstate 57 in Pulaski County.
August 2023Flash FloodFayville$25,000In the Rock Springs Hollow Road area, a roadway culvert was washed out.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFayville$4,000Tree limbs were blown down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFayville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alexander 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
Shasta (historical)2.8 miles22
Tankville3.5 miles22
Olive Branch4.0 miles22
Thebes4.3 miles22
Miller City5.3 miles21
Clank5.6 miles22
Gale5.9 miles22
Willard6.7 miles21

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 FayvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5439118The 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 422694. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.