BlockHill, Illinois
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62443. It stands on Bishop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hord quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1956 USGS Edgewood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Hord quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hill between 2009 and 2020, burning about 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 38 |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 36 |
| 10 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HOYT |
| 10 March 2010 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DULANEY |
| 17 February 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2710 |
| 3 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020202 |
| 17 January 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 8 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hill in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hill | $25,000 | Four power poles were broken at the top and several others were leaning along U.S. Highway 45 just north of the Clay-Effingham County line. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flemingsburg (historical) | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Eberle | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Mason | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Elliottstown | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Bristol (historical) | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Watson | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Edgewood | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Winterrowd | 7.8 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422807. 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.