Helm, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Romine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62849. It stands on Poplar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orchardville quadrangle.

Helm within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1952 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Orchardville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Helm in 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	016-020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Union Town	2.3 miles	11
Hickory Hill	2.4 miles	11
Iuka	8.4 miles	11
Foxville	9.1 miles	11
Kell	10.6 miles	12
Bannister	10.9 miles	11
Cartter	11.0 miles	11
Omega	13.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422796. 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.