Meppen, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richwood precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62013. It lies near Greenbay Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Brussels quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Meppen within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

1903 USGS O'Fallon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1931 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1990 USGS Brussels quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Meppen between 1996 and 2017, burning about 22 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
3 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	96-01
24 February 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	WALLENDORF TRUST/CACHE HOLLOW RD
11 November 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	SARAH MILLER 201710
2 October 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	JEFF & KATHY CAREY 201706
19 October 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CIPS ELECT FIRE
15 October 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	POLMANS FIELD
25 January 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Meppen: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sievers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Beechville	2.9 miles	27
Brussels	3.4 miles	27
Batchtown	3.7 miles	15
Centerville	4.9 miles	27
Conrad	5.0 miles	27
Deer Plain	5.9 miles	27
Marshall Landing	5.9 miles	27
Turner Landing	7.0 miles	15

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 Meppen	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1921069	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 413413. 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.