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Long Branch, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Long Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62935. The Survey maps it on the Walpole quadrangle.

Long Branch within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Long Branch in 2009, burning about 1,194 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA4
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesAMERICAN
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGALATIA2
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMOORE
5 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use1,000 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMASSEY
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeRALEIGH
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTATE
4 March 2009Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOTTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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
Tison3.3 miles19
Galatia3.5 miles19
Raleigh4.7 miles19
Halltown (historical)6.0 miles18
Francis6.7 miles17
West End6.8 miles18
Harco7.3 miles18
Wasson8.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 412548. 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.