BlockMillbrig, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Vinegar Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61036. It lies in Millbrig Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Galena quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1911 USGS Galena quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1913 USGS Galena quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque South quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
In the county-history sources
5,414 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Vinegar Hill 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 Vinegar Hill Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
4 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Millbrig (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7 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 | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018006 |
| 15 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201804 |
| 8 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20109 |
| 29 October 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge | ISLAND228 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 242 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 242 workings within 5 miles of Millbrig (historical): 180 past producers, 32 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 13 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Prospect | Zinc, Iron, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Blewett Mine | Zinc, Iron, Lead | Past Producer | 1917, 1919, 1920 | |
| Eagle-Picher Mine | Zinc, Cadmium, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Eagle-Picher Mine | Cadmium, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Southcott Prospect | Iron, Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Birbeck Prospect | Iron, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Birkbeck Mine | Iron, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Buck Hill Mine | Iron, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Dixon Quarry E. Wienen | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Jo Daviess Cty Hwy Dept Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council Hill | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Council Hill Station | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Galena | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Bremen | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Menominee | 6.9 miles | 20 | |
| Gears Ferry | 6.9 miles | 19 | |
| Guilford | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Portage | 7.1 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1695209. 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.