Morrelville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Buckhorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62353. The Survey maps it on the Perry West quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Morrelville within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Perry West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Morrelville in 2011, burning about 1 acre 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	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
31 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1183

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Morrelville: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hollenbeak Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Mt. Sterling Plant No. 13 & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Brown 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
White Oak Springs (historical)	2.5 miles	12
Benville	3.5 miles	11
Jaques	3.8 miles	12
Buckhorn	6.3 miles	12
Siloam	6.7 miles	11
Gilbirds	7.3 miles	12
Hersman	7.6 miles	12
Versailles	8.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Morrelville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6913502	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 423000. 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.