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Fransonia, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Decker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62450. It stands on Susan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Noble quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fransonia within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fransonia (historical) in 2010, burning about 2 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 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
11 October 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesARCHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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
Gallagher0.9 miles10
Elbow1.9 miles10
Seminary4.6 miles10
Wynoose4.7 miles10
Schnell4.9 miles10
Noble5.0 miles10
Watertown (historical)5.6 miles10
Calhoun6.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1820897. 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.