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Halfway, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Corinth precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62974. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle.

Halfway within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

14 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Halfway between 2010 and 2013, burning about 43 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/undetermined13
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
14 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13107
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10087
8 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10055
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10050
20 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10064
26 December 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13233
9 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10310
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10303

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Pittsburg2.4 miles17
Corinth2.5 miles17
Paulton2.6 miles17
Attila3.2 miles17
Crab Orchard5.0 miles20
Shakerag5.1 miles18
White Ash5.7 miles18
Spillertown5.9 miles18

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 HalfwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5641923The 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 409649. 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.