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Locust Grove, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Cave Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62890. The Survey maps it on the Harco quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Locust Grove within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Locust Grove (historical) between 2009 and 2013, burning about 64 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2

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
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10208
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10079
7 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA3
26 December 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13233
1 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10294
8 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10237
11 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10245
1 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10222

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Ferber2.6 miles18
Kegley2.7 miles18
Thompsonville3.6 miles18
Greenville (historical)4.7 miles18
Parrish6.4 miles18
Smothersville8.0 miles18
Logan8.1 miles18
Akin8.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1810961. 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.