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Maysville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Griggsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62340. The Survey maps it on the New Salem quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Maysville within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

9,397 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Griggsville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Griggsville Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Maysville between 2011 and 2014, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 March 2014Debris and open burning21 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140054
21 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHEITZ
3 October 2013Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130059
29 January 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Maysville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ill.Highway Shale ExposureFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Dutton (historical)2.3 miles12
New Salem2.6 miles12
Griggsville4.0 miles13
Perry5.9 miles12
Baylis5.9 miles12
Sunny Hill6.0 miles13
Pittsfield6.9 miles13
Valley City7.8 miles13

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 MaysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687850The 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 422955. 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.