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Holland, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62414. The Survey maps it on the Shumway quadrangle.

Holland within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Holland in 2013, burning about 13 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 burning1
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
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1300MA
16 November 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13029

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Beecher City2.8 miles12
Moccasin4.8 miles12
Shumway5.5 miles15
Blue Point7.0 miles15
Dexter9.9 miles15
Freenanton (historical)10.3 miles15
Keptown10.3 miles15
Altamont10.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422814. 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.