Freenanton, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62411. The Survey maps it on the Altamont East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Freenanton within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1950 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1951 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Altamont East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Altamont East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Freenanton (historical) in 2004, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 February 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dexter	0.4 miles	15
Keptown	0.6 miles	15
East Meadows	3.2 miles	15
Blue Point	3.4 miles	15
Funkhouser	3.4 miles	15
Altamont	3.7 miles	15
Southmore Heights	4.2 miles	15
Ewington	4.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1810499. 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.