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Reevesville, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Grantsburg No. 2 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62943. The Survey maps it on the Reevesville quadrangle. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Reevesville within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Reevesville between 1999 and 2018, burning about 162 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestMILLSTONE
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee National ForestRENSHAW
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.2 acresShawnee National ForestSUGAR CREEK
30 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFENDON
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreShawnee National ForestFIRECRACKER
6 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRAILROAD
22 April 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresShawnee National ForestRAILROAD
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1622

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Reevesville: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brownfield Sanstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reevesville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2003: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2003Tornado (F0)Reevesville-Tree damage and some downed trees were the main effect of this tornado.
March 1997HailReevesville-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
Grantsburg3.6 miles19
Ganntown3.7 miles17
Wartrace5.0 miles20
Crossroads5.2 miles17
Flatwoods5.6 miles19
Simpson8.8 miles20
Cross Roads (historical)9.1 miles20
Pond9.2 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 ReevesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888506The 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 416506. 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.

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.