Piankashawtown, Illinois

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Shelby No. 2 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62806. The Survey maps it on the Albion North quadrangle. It stands 417 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Piankashawtown within Edwards County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1943 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Albion North quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Piankashawtown (historical) between 2010 and 2019, burning about 13 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-132
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	419
21 July 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-123
22 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	237
22 March 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	296
16 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	294
6 February 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	154
5 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	213

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edwards 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
Black	2.6 miles	8
Wanborough (historical)	3.6 miles	8
Albion	4.3 miles	8
Samsville	4.5 miles	8
Bone Gap	5.4 miles	18
Red Top	5.5 miles	9
Bennington	6.7 miles	10
Browns	7.0 miles	18

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 Piankashawtown (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7190064	The 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 1808165. 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.