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Loves Corner, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Cave-In-Rock precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62919. It sits by Barker Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Cave-in-Rock quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Loves Corner within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 23 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Loves Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestPICNIC
27 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee National ForestTOWER ROCK
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee National ForestPINE
3 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShawnee National ForestTUCKER HILL
17 April 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresShawnee National ForestPENNELL
16 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresShawnee National ForestROCK CREEK
11 April 2001Recreation and ceremony15 acresShawnee National ForestTOWER ROCK
24 March 2015Other causesunder an acreShawnee National ForestLAMB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Loves Corner: 65 past producers, 7 occurrences, 7 prospects, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Cave In Rock Quadrangle MineZinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, Cadmium, Germanium, Gallium, Barium-Barite, Calcium, Quartz, IronProducer1919
Crystal MineZinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, SilverPast Producer1929
Deardorff Mine No. 1Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
East Green MineFluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
M.F. Oxford No. 7Zinc, Silver, Lead, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerUnderground
Minerva No. 1 MineFluorine-Fluorite, Germanium, Lead, Silver, Gallium, Cadmium, Barium-BariteProducer
Patrick MineZinc, Lead, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Victory MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
West Green MineFluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Hastie Quarry & MillFluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-BaritePlant1900

Every working recorded in Hardin 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
Cave-in-Rock1.8 miles23
Lamb3.5 miles24
Peters Creek3.8 miles23
Rock Creek4.1 miles23
Finneyville4.8 miles24
Saline Landing5.6 miles23
Cadiz6.5 miles23
Gross6.9 miles22

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 Loves CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6692476The 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 425146. 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.