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Flemingsburg, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62443. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Flemingsburg within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Flemingsburg (historical) between 2009 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources38
16 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources36
10 March 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOYT
10 March 2010Smoking3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDULANEY
17 February 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2710
3 December 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020202
17 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Hill1.1 miles9
Eberle4.4 miles9
Mason4.6 miles9
Bristol (historical)5.1 miles9
Watson6.4 miles15
Elliottstown6.5 miles11
Edgewood6.5 miles9
Heartville7.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1810497. 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.