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Kidd, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Precinct 13. It lies in ZIP code area 62277. The Survey maps it on the Bloomsdale quadrangle.

Kidd within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

19 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Kidd between 2007 and 2020, burning about 141 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-00019
12 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000024
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHENERFAULT
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesESCHMANN
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTAAKE
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFULTS3
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFULTS
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFULTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kidd: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 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
Carrans QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Prairie Du Rocher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Solvay MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stotz Quarry MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kidd in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKidd-Thunderstorm winds blew over a power pole about a mile northeast of Kidd. In Renault, several large tree limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Saint Philip (historical)0.9 miles19
Renault3.2 miles18
Ivy4.0 miles18
Fults4.1 miles18
Ames6.6 miles16
Saint Joe8.0 miles18
Maeystown8.1 miles18
Chalfin Bridge8.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 411454. 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.