BlockHaynes, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Illiopolis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62539. The Survey maps it on the Mount Auburn quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mount Auburn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,404 words on this townshipHistory of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Illiopolis Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Illiopolis Township - 6,404 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Haynes in 2009, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAVIS |
| 17 March 2009 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SMITH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saunders | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lanesville | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Illiopolis | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Buffalo | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mechanicsburg | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Dawson | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Buffalo Hart | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Buckhart | 10.4 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422792. 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.