BlockLake Creek, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Denning Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62896. The Survey maps it on the Christopher quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Christopher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
12 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lake Creek between 2010 and 2019, burning about 129 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 97 acres | Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge | MONROE |
| 25 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10211 |
| 12 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10088 |
| 10 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10084 |
| 3 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILLS |
| 28 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WRIGHT |
| 10 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10345 |
| 7 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10301 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422891. 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.