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Petersburg, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lukin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62466. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle.

Petersburg within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Petersburg in 2013, 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/undetermined1

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
1 December 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1319511

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Helena2.3 miles13
Grays Corner6.8 miles17
Sand Barrens7.3 miles18
Bridgeport8.7 miles13
Sumner8.8 miles13
Hadley9.7 miles13
Saint Francisville9.8 miles18
Billett10.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 415577. 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.