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Jefferson City, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Beaver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62859. The Survey maps it on the Bungay quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jefferson City within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jefferson City (historical) in 2020, burning under an 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
Debris and open burning1

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
17 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-03170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Blairsville1.3 miles9
Thackeray2.1 miles9
New London (historical)3.2 miles9
Bungay3.4 miles9
Logansport (historical)3.7 miles9
Thurber5.0 miles9
McLeansboro5.5 miles10
Piopolis5.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1812460. 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.