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Harco, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Brushy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62935. The Survey maps it on the Harco quadrangle.

Harco 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

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Harco between 2009 and 2020, burning about 92 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10208
9 April 2013Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13063
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10079
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA4
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesAMERICAN
7 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA3
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA2
6 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHARCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harco in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHarco$2,000A couple of trees and one power pole was blown down.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Harco-A weak, short-lived tornado was reported by a trained spotter. The spotter reported the tornado over reclaimed strip-mine property. No damage was located.
April 2018HailHarco-no account filed

Every storm 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
New Hope2.1 miles18
Galatia3.8 miles19
Buena Vista5.6 miles20
Dorris Heights6.1 miles20
Raleigh6.6 miles19
Liberty6.7 miles20
Harrisburg7.0 miles20
Halltown (historical)7.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409766. 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.