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Rennerville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Okaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62565. The Survey maps it on the Shelbyville quadrangle.

Rennerville within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rennerville in 2013, burning about 138 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 August 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130073
5 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130023
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130022
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130021
23 March 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130016
11 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources101113

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rennerville: 1 past producer. 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
Shelby County Hiwy Dept PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Duvall1.8 miles14
Westervelt3.3 miles14
Shelbyville3.6 miles14
Lithia5.2 miles14
Henton5.2 miles13
Findlay5.4 miles11
Middlesworth5.8 miles14
Yantisville6.8 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122598968The 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 423108. 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.