BlockBefore

Peabody, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fancy Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62684. It stands on Fancy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamsville quadrangle.

Peabody within Sangamon County

On record in Peabody

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

3,434 words on this township

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fancy Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fancy Creek Township - 3,434 words.

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Peabody between 2005 and 2014, burning about 119 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11

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
26 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-0000327
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10308
11 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-0000307
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10259
8 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10209
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10228
5 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000148
29 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-0000179

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sangamon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Peabody: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverton Barrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon 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
Sherman1.1 miles17
Streadle1.8 miles20
Devereux Heights2.0 miles20
Bissell2.4 miles20
Andrew2.4 miles17
Knollwood3.0 miles17
Spaulding3.3 miles20
Ridgely3.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1747315. 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.