Siloam, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Buckhorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62353. The Survey maps it on the Kellerville quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Siloam within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Kellerville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Siloam between 2009 and 2013, burning about 66 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
27 September 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	KLASUSER
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	READIN
31 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1183
23 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	COR
23 February 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	HOSTINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Benville	3.2 miles	11
White Oak Springs (historical)	5.2 miles	12
Buckhorn	5.4 miles	12
Morrelville	6.7 miles	11
Fargo	6.7 miles	12
Timewell	8.6 miles	14
Jaques	9.2 miles	12
Hersman	10.2 miles	12

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 Siloam	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7515498	The 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 423186. 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.