BlockSpring Valley, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in McKee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62324. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kellerville quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 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
9 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley between 2009 and 2015, burning about 71 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
| 6 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1195 |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | READIN |
| 27 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 4272015 |
| 23 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015022 |
| 23 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | COR |
| 20 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 32020151 |
| 20 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAHMER |
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.
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 Spring Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4438220 | 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 1785353. 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.