BlockMiles Station, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brighton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62012. The Survey maps it on the Shipman quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1925 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1928 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Shipman quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,316 words on this townshipHistory of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Brighton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Miles Station is located in Brighton township, a portion of the hamlet lying on section 9, while a smaller part is on section 8. The place is located in the midst of a rich agricultural district and is on the line of the Chicago & Alton railroad. The proprietor of Miles Station was Colonel J. R. Miles, for whom it was named, and it was platted and surveyed by S. F. Spaulding in the year 1869.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
22 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Miles Station between 2007 and 2011, burning about 102 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 | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90902 |
| 27 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90722 |
| 29 June 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90627 |
| 21 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90620 |
| 4 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90503 |
| 12 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 90506 |
| 1 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CRAQFTON |
| 1 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | PRUITT |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Piasa | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Shipman | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Woodburn | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Centerville | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Medora | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Royal Lakes | 8.2 miles | 12 | |
| Summerville | 8.3 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.
| Wikidata item Q122552451 | 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 424162. 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.