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Mount Fulcher, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hurlbut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62693. The Survey maps it on the Williamsville quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Mount Fulcher within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

1,109 words on this township

History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hurlbut Township covers location and boundaries, official list, 1867-1885, statistics, political, biographical.

Read the chapter on Hurlbut Township - 1,109 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Fulcher between 2002 and 2010, burning about 3 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10107
24 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1085
15 March 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 December 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 December 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 December 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Elkhart2.5 miles14
Broadwell6.4 miles14
Cornland6.9 miles11
Middletown8.6 miles13
Fogarty8.6 miles14
Lake Fork8.7 miles10
Chestervale12.2 miles14
Mount Pulaski12.3 miles14

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 FulcherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6920835The 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 1720884. 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.