Hillsboro Heights, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hillsboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62049. It stands on Cress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Hillsboro Heights within Montgomery County

On record in Hillsboro Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Hayward-Hill Houselisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
George Blackman Houselisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
Freeman-Brewer-Sawyer Houselisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away
Montgomery County Courthouselisted 1994 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1947 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro Heights between 2001 and 2005, burning about 58 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	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hillsboro Heights: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Zinc, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) Hillsboro Zinc Smelter	Zinc	Plant
Spring Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Hillsboro Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Montgomery County Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Hillsboro	0.7 miles	10
Fairmont Place	0.9 miles	10
Schram City	1.2 miles	10
Taylor Springs	1.7 miles	10
Butler	4.1 miles	12
Irving	5.4 miles	10
Coffeen	6.7 miles	11
Island View	8.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1821743. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.