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Herborn, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62465. The Survey maps it on the Stewardson West quadrangle.

Herborn within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Herborn between 2013 and 2014, burning about 67 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13011
5 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13004
26 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14007
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14006
20 October 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herborn in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2008LightningHerborn1 hurtAn adult male, age unknown, was struck by lightning while hunting at Hidden Springs State Forest. He was transported to a local hospital and treated for his injuries.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Stewardson2.7 miles12
South Strasburg3.0 miles12
Strasburg3.5 miles12
Kingman3.7 miles12
Trowbridge5.9 miles12
Mode6.1 miles12
Clarksburg7.3 miles13
Fancher8.0 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122560008The 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 1725265. 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.