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Sailor Springs, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hoosier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62824. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sailor Springs quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Sailor Springs within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Sailor Springs fell from 95 to 89 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201095
202089-6 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sailor Springs between 2009 and 2010, burning about 12 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources41
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources39
1 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSMITH
15 October 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSCHNEPPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Clay City5.2 miles11
Ingraham5.2 miles9
Hoosier5.6 miles9
Maysville6.0 miles11
Wendelin6.8 miles9
Camp Travis7.4 miles11
Louisville7.4 miles9
Bible Grove8.7 miles9

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 Sailor SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2628453The 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 417116. 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.