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Halltown, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Tate Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62890. It stands on Halltown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Akin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Halltown within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Halltown (historical) between 2009 and 2010, burning about 18 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10079
7 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA3
23 February 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHERREN
1 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10294
8 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10237
1 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10222

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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
West End0.8 miles18
Galatia5.6 miles19
Long Branch6.0 miles19
New Hope6.8 miles18
Harco7.0 miles18
Tison9.3 miles19
Raleigh9.6 miles19
Buena Vista12.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1820980. 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.