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Richwood Manor, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Pana Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62557. The Survey maps it on the Pana quadrangle.

Richwood Manor within Christian County

On record in Richwood Manor

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Richwood Manor between 2008 and 2015, burning about 177 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Smoking2

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
30 September 2015Smoking4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources4CORNAC
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTATEPANA1
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKRESIN
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBLAND2
6 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRAILROAD
6 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMID STATE
23 March 2013Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBLAND3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Richwood Manor: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Pana QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pana Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Christian 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
Park Manor0.4 miles11
Pana0.6 miles11
Rosamond4.9 miles11
Dunkel5.3 miles11
Millersville6.3 miles11
Assumption9.0 miles11
Owaneco9.1 miles11
Velma12.2 miles10

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 Q122597818The 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 2629379. 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.