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Holliday, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 62414. The Survey maps it on the Beecher City quadrangle.

Holliday within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Holliday in 2013, burning about 9 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/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

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Greenland (historical)2.5 miles12
Wrights Corner6.4 miles12
Magnolia Corner8.5 miles13
Post Oak9.8 miles13
Twin Churches11.1 miles12
Pruett11.4 miles13
Sefton12.2 miles13
Dressor12.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 410396. 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.