Markham, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lynnville-Markham precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62628. The Survey maps it on the Lynnville quadrangle.

Markham within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Lynnville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Markham between 2008 and 2017, burning about 32 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/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BECKER
23 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	KIRCHER
5 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	EVANS2
5 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	PROFFITT
31 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1082
30 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	90
28 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	11104
17 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Joy Prairie	3.2 miles	11
Chapin	4.0 miles	11
Lynnville	4.2 miles	12
Jacksonville	5.3 miles	12
Concord	5.4 miles	11
Morgan City (historical)	5.5 miles	11
Bethel	5.6 miles	11
South Jacksonville	5.9 miles	12

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 Markham	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85783947	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 422941. 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.