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Kedron, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Eagle Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62934. It lies near Burnt Shanty Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Equality quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Kedron within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Kedron between 1994 and 2020, burning about 735 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 were 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning7
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.2 acresShawnee National ForestGAPE HOLLOW
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestEAGLE
21 September 2010Debris and open burning3.3 acresShawnee National ForestBARRETT
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremony10 acresShawnee National ForestCAMPFIRE II
13 September 1998Smokingunder an acreShawnee National ForestHIGH KNOB TRAIL
26 August 1999Smokingunder an acreShawnee National ForestSNOW CONE STAND
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShawnee National ForestOTHER FIRE 1
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShawnee National ForestOTHER FIRE 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kedron: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them 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
High Knob Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kedron in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Tornado (EF2)Kedron$35,000An EF-2 tornado, with estimated peak winds of 115mph for the Gallatin County portion of the tornado and the tornado as a whole, began in far southeast Saline County and then crossed into southern Gallatin County along a 10 mile path. The most severe damage occurred near the start of the path along Gape Hollow Road, Forest Road, and Barrett Cemetery Roads, where several trees were snapped and wooden power poles were broken. The tornado then weakened to EF-0 intensity as it moved east across|IL-1 near the Gibsonia community. The tornado lifted shy of of the Ohio River at Jester Road. This was the third tornado to be produced by the supercell that had developed the Williamson County EF-4 tornado earlier in the evening.

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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
Leamington2.6 miles22
Gibsonia4.4 miles22
Equality4.7 miles22
Lawler5.2 miles22
Junction6.8 miles23
Bowlesville (historical)6.9 miles23
Shawneetown8.8 miles23
Ridgway10.2 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on KedronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6382620The 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 422859. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.