BlockSaline, Illinois
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Carrier Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62987. It stands on Black Slough. The Survey maps it on the Carrier Mills quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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 Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Carrier Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Carrier Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Saline between 1994 and 2017, burning about 72 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10194 |
| 11 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | NINE ELEVEN FIRE |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10165 |
| 30 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | TOM DICK HILL #2 |
| 2 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | BURTON |
| 2 April 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | STONEFORT |
| 18 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Shawnee National Forest | OLD JACKSON PLACE |
| 25 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Shawnee National Forest | HILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 1.3 miles | 22 | |
| Delta | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Oldtown | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Carrier Mills | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Ledford | 6.8 miles | 20 | |
| Liberty | 8.4 miles | 20 | |
| Mitchellsville | 8.4 miles | 20 | |
| Buena Vista | 9.0 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423149. 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.