Sleepy Hollow, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Southern precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. The Survey maps it on the Goreville quadrangle.

Sleepy Hollow within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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 Marion quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Marion quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Goreville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow between 1992 and 2019, burning about 95 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	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	MILE MARKER 48
26 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	MILE MARKER 47
14 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	ALUM
23 May 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	COPPERHEAD ROAD
28 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BUCK
22 March 2019	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Shawnee National Forest	VAIL DRIVE
28 February 1992	Smoking	13 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named
22 February 1992	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
	Fluorine Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Williamson 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
Clifty Heights	0.3 miles	20
Cedar Hills	0.4 miles	20
Woodland Hills	0.6 miles	20
Crestwood	0.6 miles	20
Fopal	0.6 miles	20
Kelleys	0.6 miles	20
Sunset Harbor	1.4 miles	20
Egypt Shores	1.4 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1824236. 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.