BlockHighland Town, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60479. The Survey maps it on the Mazon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
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.
- 1948 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mazon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,726 words on this townshipHistory of Grundy County, Illinois : Containing a History from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... , Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers, Prominent Men, Etc, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Highland Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Highland Township - 3,726 words.
Fires near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Highland Town (historical) between 2003 and 2018, burning about 60 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-000184 |
| 11 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 October 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 October 2007 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1811055. 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.