Raeftown, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ste. Marie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62475. The Survey maps it on the Dundas quadrangle.

Raeftown within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1941 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Dundas quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Raeftown in 2010, burning about 5 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	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
14 October 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CALEB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
West Liberty	4.4 miles	10
Sainte Marie	5.2 miles	10
Boos	7.6 miles	10
Willow Hill	9.6 miles	10
Shamrock	10.1 miles	10
Newton	12.5 miles	10
Brookville	13.0 miles	13
Bogota	13.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 416348. 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.