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Fults, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Precinct 13. It lies in ZIP code area 62244. It lies near Morrison Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Renault quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Fults within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Fults grew from 26 to 28 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201026
202028+2 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

51 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Fults between 2002 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
13 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-00019
12 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000024
16 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-000022
9 June 2017Smoking5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesELMER SCHUTHEIS
8 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUP
6 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0004
14 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION PACIFIC RR
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHENERFAULT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fults: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Columbia Quarry No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fults in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFults$500,000Seven freight train cars were blown over and off of their tracks between Fults and Valmeyer.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Fults-A tornado touched down on the north end of Fults, just north of Ivy Road, southwest of where the train tracks cross Ivy Road. In this location the corn crop was snapped off. The tornado continued to the northeast snapping off half of a large maple tree. The tree fell onto a house causing moderate damage. Also, several smaller trees in the area were damaged. The tornado then crossed Ivy Road and took off a side section of an old barn before lifting and dissipating on the south side of Bluff Road. The tornado was rated EF0. It was on the ground for a third of a mile with a max path width of 40 yards.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFults-A large tree was blown onto Bluff Road. The road was blocked for about 2 hours.
March 2006Tornado (F1)Fults-The third tornado from the Jefferson County, MO supercell thunderstorm formed about 2 miles southwest of Fults about 9:46 pm CST. It destroyed a large grain bin as it moved east northeast. As it moved into the town of Fults, it caused minor roof damage and siding damage to 2 homes and minor roof damage to the Post Office. Two small sheds in the area were also destroyed. Several pine trees were snapped off at the tornado left Fults and dissipated. The maximum damage path was 100 yards wide with a F1 rating.
March 2006Tornado (F2)Fults-The second Jefferson County, MO tornado crossed the Mississippi River into Monroe County Illinois at about 9:47 pm CST and moved north northeast for about 2 miles. Several trees were and outbuildings were damaged just to the southwest and northwest of Fults. The maximum width was 100 yards with a F2 rating.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindFults-Emergency management officials reported a couple of power poles snapped and a couple a garages damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2016HailFults-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Ivy1.4 miles18
Kidd4.1 miles19
Maeystown4.1 miles18
Chalfin Bridge4.2 miles19
Renault4.4 miles18
Saint Philip (historical)4.6 miles19
Saint Joe5.7 miles18
Monroe City6.7 miles26

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 FultsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672161The 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 408811. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.