Oldtown, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Stonefort Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62987. It stands on Grassy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stonefort quadrangle.

Oldtown within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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.

1925 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Stonefort quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Stonefort quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Oldtown between 1994 and 2017, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	NINE ELEVEN FIRE
30 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TOM DICK HILL #2
29 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TOM DICK HILL 1
7 April 2004	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Shawnee National Forest	DRY FORK
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	BURDEN
26 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TEAL POND FIRE
2 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	BURTON
2 April 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	STONEFORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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
Saline	3.0 miles	22
Newcastle	3.5 miles	22
Delta	5.7 miles	22
Carrier Mills	6.4 miles	22
Ledford	8.5 miles	20
Mitchellsville	8.6 miles	20
Liberty	10.2 miles	20
Rudement	10.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 425280. 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.