BlockGanntown, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Grantsburg No. 2 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62943. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mermet quadrangle. It stands 548 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Mermet quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ganntown between 2000 and 2018, burning about 104 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FENDON |
| 4 July 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | FIRECRACKER |
| 22 April 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | RAILROAD |
| 7 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CROSSSROADS |
| 7 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | STRATMAYER |
| 20 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | QUAIL |
| 20 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1628 |
| 1 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CROCKETT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ganntown in 1 storm report in 2010: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Hail | Ganntown | - | Nickel-size hail was reported at mile marker 23 on Interstate 24 in the extreme southeast part of the 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Wartrace | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Grantsburg | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Reevesville | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Flatwoods | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Bender (historical) | 5.8 miles | 20 | |
| Pond | 6.2 miles | 20 | |
| Forman | 6.6 miles | 19 |
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 Ganntown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q54888509 | The 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 408870. 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.
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.