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Joppa Junction, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Cache precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62923. The Survey maps it on the Cypress quadrangle.

Joppa Junction within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Joppa Junction between 2007 and 2013, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism1
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
1 August 2007Arson/incendiarism9.7 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
29 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresCypress Creek National Wildlife RefugeBETHANY
8 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWALVIST
6 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1616
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCypress Creek National Wildlife RefugeLONG REACH
14 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13035
11 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCypress Creek National Wildlife RefugeNORMANDY
30 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFALCONER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Joppa Junction: 1 prospect, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Charles Stone Plant #15 & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Cypress Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
White Hill0.9 miles18
Cypress2.5 miles18
Belknap4.9 miles19
Forman6.7 miles19
West Vienna7.6 miles20
Pleasant Grove7.7 miles18
Bender (historical)8.1 miles20
Vienna9.2 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122552422The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422852. 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.