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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1907 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1940 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Williamsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,109 words on this townshipHistory 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 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10107 |
| 24 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1085 |
| 15 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 December 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 December 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 December 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Broadwell | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cornland | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Middletown | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Fogarty | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Fork | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Chestervale | 12.2 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Pulaski | 12.3 miles | 14 |
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 Fulcher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6920835 | 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 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.






