BlockLexington, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bone Gap precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62815. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bone Gap quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1903 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Mount Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Bone Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mount Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lexington (historical) between 2010 and 2017, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 231 |
| 5 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 213 |
| 10 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10159 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Gap | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Browns | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Red Top | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Albion | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Mills Prairie (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Piankashawtown (historical) | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Samsville | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Wanborough (historical) | 7.2 miles | 8 |
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 Lexington (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6537754 | The 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 1808156. 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.