BlockMount Carbon, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Murphysboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62966. It stands on Mount Carbon. The Survey maps it on the Murphysboro quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1910 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Murphysboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carbon between 2010 and 2020, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | FIVE POINTS |
| 16 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | HWY 149 |
| 23 March 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | SHOAL CREEK |
| 10 December 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | WYLIE |
| 12 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LITTLE LAKE WF |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Junction | 0.5 miles | 18 | |
| Murphysboro | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Harrison | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Poplar Ridge | 4.4 miles | 23 | |
| Etherton | 4.6 miles | 23 | |
| Grange Hall | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Eltham (historical) | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Carbondale | 5.8 miles | 22 |
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 Mount Carbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65071394 | 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 413938. 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.