BlockMeyer, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Goode Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62884. The Survey maps it on the Sesser quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Duquoin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Sesser quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Sesser quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Meyer between 2001 and 2012, burning about 82 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 | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | NONE |
| 12 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SESSER3 |
| 23 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | TLAUTH |
| 21 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | ILL |
| 4 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILLER |
| 25 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARHET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valier Patch | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Valier | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Sesser | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Rend City | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Coello | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Hickory Corners | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Buckner | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Urbain | 5.1 miles | 18 |
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 Q65052595 | 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 426936. 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.