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Massac City, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Metropolis No. 4 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62960. It stands on Massac Creek. The Survey maps it on the Metropolis quadrangle.

Massac City within Massac County

On record in Massac City

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

42 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Massac City between 1997 and 2016, burning about 422 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCREEK
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKRUSER
6 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBUNTING
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRAMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Massac County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Massac City: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Massac County PitStone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Federal Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Metropolis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Massac 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
Metropolis0.9 miles23
Brookport4.9 miles22
Choat6.4 miles19
Round Knob7.2 miles23
Joppa8.0 miles19
Midway8.0 miles23
Shady Grove8.2 miles24
Unionville9.2 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122595035The 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 1821538. 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.