Howards Point, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Avena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62458. The Survey maps it on the Altamont West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Howards Point within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS St. Elmo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS St. Elmo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Altamont West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Altamont West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Howards Point (historical) in 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
28 February 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Howards Point (historical): 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Diller Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer
	St. Elmo Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Elmo	0.7 miles	13
Avena	3.8 miles	13
Pruett	4.1 miles	13
Saint James	4.6 miles	11
Magnolia Corner	5.1 miles	13
Brownstown	5.3 miles	11
Post Oak	5.5 miles	13
Sefton	6.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1773077. 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.