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Fiatt, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Joshua Township. The Survey maps it on the Fiatt quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Fiatt within Fulton County

On record in Fiatt

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fiatt between 2018 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-032
4 April 2020Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-009
4 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-011
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-013
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fiatt in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
November 2010Thunderstorm WindFiatt$55,000A barn and two outbuildings were heavily damaged. The roof of one of the buildings was blown approximately 100 yards.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFiatt$30,000Numerous trees were blown down. A wall was blown out on a metal sided wood framed garage.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFiatt$15,000A tree was blown onto a house.
July 2024Flash FloodFiatt-The emergency manager reported flash flooding across portions of the county, with several ditches overflowing onto roadways.
July 2024Flash FloodFiatt-Water was flowing over Route 97 between Cuba and Fiatt.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindFiatt-Two trees were blown down.
July 2003Flash FloodFiatt-Very heavy rains fell for several hours over Fulton County. Illinois Route 9 was briefly flooded near Fiatt. No injuries were reported.
May 2024HailFiatt-no account filed
June 2011HailFiatt-no account filed
June 2009HailFiatt-no account filed
July 2008HailFiatt-no account filed
March 2005HailFiatt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Bybee2.6 miles16
Civer (historical)4.6 miles17
Fulton Center (historical)4.6 miles17
Cuba4.7 miles19
Fairview5.1 miles17
Blyton5.1 miles17
Buckeye6.2 miles17
Westview Acres6.8 miles17

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 FiattAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5446340The 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 408349. 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.

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.