Fruit, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pin Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62025. The Survey maps it on the Marine quadrangle.

Fruit within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1927 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Marine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Marine quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fruit between 2001 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
27 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14047
5 December 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Barnett	2.0 miles	17
Maple	2.2 miles	17
Graney	2.7 miles	17
Kuhn Station	3.5 miles	17
Hamel	4.1 miles	15
Carpenter	4.5 miles	14
Edwardsville	5.0 miles	17
Kaufman	5.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422717. 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.