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Sandburn, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Bloomfield precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62995. The Survey maps it on the Creal Springs quadrangle.

Sandburn within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sandburn between 1996 and 2018, burning about 120 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShawnee National ForestDUTCHMAN
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShawnee National ForestBOTTOMS
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13022
23 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestCOPPERHEAD ROAD
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresShawnee National ForestBUCK
25 April 1996Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresShawnee National ForestCOPPERHEAD
22 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDARCY
22 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWEININGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sandburn: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead. 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
Shawnee Low Interest Fluorine DepositBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Caseyville Sandstone Deposit 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Fluorine OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorine OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Tunnel Hill Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandburn in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailSandburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Tunnel Hill1.0 miles19
Stringtown (historical)3.0 miles20
Reynoldsburg3.5 miles19
Bloomfield4.3 miles20
Pond4.5 miles20
Cross Roads (historical)4.5 miles20
Parker4.8 miles19
Ozark4.8 miles19

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 Q122566317The 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 425446. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.