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Ozark, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Ozark precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62972. The Survey maps it on the Creal Springs quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Ozark within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Ozark between 1992 and 2019, burning about 211 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresShawnee National ForestPARKER CITY
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresShawnee National ForestNINE ELEVEN FIRE
7 April 2004Debris and open burning65 acresShawnee National ForestDRY FORK
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism20 acresShawnee National Forestnot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestOLD ZION 2
3 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestOLD ZION
22 April 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestDAVIS CAMP
18 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresShawnee National ForestOLD JACKSON PLACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozark in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008Flash FloodOzark-Water was over U.S. Highway 45 north of Vienna.
May 2009HailOzark-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Reynoldsburg2.0 miles19
New Burnside2.6 miles19
Parker2.8 miles19
Tunnel Hill4.2 miles19
Sandburn4.8 miles19
Simpson5.2 miles20
Cross Roads (historical)5.2 miles20
Egyptian Hills7.3 miles20

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 OzarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7116469The 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 425295. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.