BlockHickory Hill, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Romine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62889. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:48000
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Harmony quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Hill in 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 2 |
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 |
| 6 March 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 016-022 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Hill in 3 storm reports in 2011: 3 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Hickory Hill | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded some of which had one to two feet of water over them. Several cars were stranded in the flood waters. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Hickory Hill | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Illinois Route 37 near Walnut Hill Road and Interstate 57 near mile marker 113. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Hickory Hill | - | Between 3 and 7 inches of rain fell over several days causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 161 near Centralia. Also, several vehicles stalled out in Centralia due to being driven into flooded areas. In Salem, a large amount of water was released from Salem Reservoir into Town Creek due to the heavy rains. This caused Town Creek to overflow its banks downstream. There was a voluntary evacuation of a mobile home park that is close to Town Creek due to the rising waters. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1821408. 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.