National City, Illinois

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stites Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62201. It stands on Schoenberger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granite City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

National City within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
1933 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1935 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1940 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of National City (historical) between 2009 and 2014, 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	2
Smoking	2

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 March 2014	Smoking	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CBHALWACHS
13 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	GREEN
5 December 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	I64 M9.5
17 December 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	79TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of National City (historical): 34 past producers, 2 plants, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget Smelter	Copper	Plant
(Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery	Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Madison Plant	Thorium	Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments	Iron	Producer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co Quarry 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 3	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bowdirns Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carl's Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carlins Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Brooklyn	0.9 miles	28
East Saint Louis	1.6 miles	27
Rose Lake	2.9 miles	21
Fairmont City	3.6 miles	21
Rosemont	3.6 miles	21
Sauget	3.6 miles	27
Washington Park	3.7 miles	21
Alorton	4.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426441. 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.