Newport, Illinois

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Venice Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62040. It lies near Kerr Island. The Survey maps it on the Granite City quadrangle.

Newport within Madison 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

In the county-history sources

968 words on this township

History of Madison County, Illinois ... With Biographical Sketches .., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Venice Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The town of Newport was laid oS' by I. W. Blackman, of St. Louis, Mo , and plat recorded April 27, 1858. It is situated on Survey 604, Claim 637, or, more properly. Section 26. It has never attracted any particular attention, and consists of a few dwelling-houses only. On Section 24 is the station of Kinder, near which, on S. E It Sect. 13, is a neat church building, now occupied by the Gsrman Lutherans as church and school-house. It was erected at first as a school building by special legislation, obtained through the efforts of Calvin Kinder and others. For a time it was used as intended, for school purposes and church without regard to sect, but passed from such control into the hands of the present management. It is a brick building, two stories high. Since the inauguration of township organization in 1876, Theodore Selb has uninterruptedly represented this township in the county Board of Supervisors The population of the township in ISSO was 1120.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Illinois ... With Biographical Sketches .., published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Venice Township.

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 2006 and 2011, burning under an 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	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
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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 Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 29 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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) Sauget Zinc Refinery	Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Madison Plant	Thorium	Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments	Iron	Producer
Prospect Hill Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	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

Every working recorded in Madison 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
North Venice	0.5 miles	28
Venice	0.7 miles	28
Madison	1.0 miles	28
Madison Station	1.6 miles	28
Granite City	2.0 miles	28
Eagle Park	2.1 miles	28
Nameoki	4.3 miles	28
Maryland Place	4.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423022. 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.