Hallsville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Barnett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61727. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville East quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Hallsville within De Witt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1957 USGS Kenney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Waynesville East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hallsville in 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
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
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2014036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in De Witt 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 Hallsville: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eagle-Picher Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Holtz Pit No. 77	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Keck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kenney Pit 9	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in De Witt 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
Midland City	2.2 miles	12
Tabor	3.0 miles	12
Jenkins	3.1 miles	12
Tunbridge	3.5 miles	12
Kenney	3.8 miles	12
Waynesville	6.3 miles	12
Rowell	6.4 miles	12
Clinton	6.8 miles	13

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 Hallsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5643178	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 409674. 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.