Salina, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Burlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60140. The Survey maps it on the Pingree Grove quadrangle.

Salina within Kane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1925 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1940 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

1,488 words on this township

History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Burlington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Burlington Township - 1,488 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Salina between 2003 and 2013, burning about 108 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/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2013-292
28 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 March 2003	Recreation and ceremony	75 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane 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
North Plato	1.7 miles	17
Burlington	2.9 miles	13
Starks	3.5 miles	17
Allens Corners	3.7 miles	17
Plato Center	3.7 miles	17
Hampshire	4.0 miles	13
Silent Meadow	4.5 miles	17
Tamara Heights	4.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1802416. 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.