Omar, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Elvira precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62939. The Survey maps it on the Goreville quadrangle.

Omar within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 Marion quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Omar between 1996 and 2019, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.6 acres	Shawnee National Forest	CEDAR BLUFF
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	DUTCHMAN
2 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	REGENT
29 August 2012	Smoking	12 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MAZE
28 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BOTTOMS
25 April 1996	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	COPPERHEAD
9 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CHARLES PROCTOR
4 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Omar: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Shawnee Low Interest Refractory Clay Deposit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Southern Illinois Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Buncombe	2.1 miles	20
Elvira	3.3 miles	18
Goreville	3.6 miles	20
Stringtown (historical)	4.7 miles	20
West Vienna	5.0 miles	20
Pleasant Grove	5.3 miles	18
Deer Ridge	5.3 miles	20
Sugar Creek Ranch	5.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423043. 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.