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Maeystown, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Precinct 23. It lies in ZIP code area 62244. The Survey maps it on the Renault quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Maeystown within Monroe County

On record in Maeystown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Maeystown fell from 157 to 150 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010157
2020150-7 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

47 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Maeystown between 2008 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
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
7 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources62220
13 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-00019
6 July 2013Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-00008
16 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-000022
1 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBAUM
9 June 2017Smoking5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesELMER SCHUTHEIS
8 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUP
11 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKOCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maeystown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbia Quarry No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maeystown in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMaeystown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
February 2017HailMaeystown-A swath of large hail, up to golfball size, fell across Monroe County between Maeystown and Hecker.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMaeystown-A 30 foot tree was split in half by thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindMaeystown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs in Maeystown and areas just to the northeast of town. A couple of sheds sustained minor damage.
May 2003Flash FloodMaeystown-Flash flooding occurred over parts of Western Monroe County. Four feet of water was reported over Maeystown Road by the Sheriff Department. Several small creeks and drainage ditches in the area flooded.
May 2008HailMaeystown-no account filed
February 2006HailMaeystown-no account filed
April 1998HailMaeystown-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMaeystown-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMaeystown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Chalfin Bridge2.1 miles19
Monroe City2.8 miles26
Madonnaville2.9 miles19
Woodville (historical)3.0 miles26
Fults4.1 miles18
Saint Joe4.3 miles18
Wartburg5.0 miles19
Ivy5.1 miles18

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 MaeystownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2615382The 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 412843. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.