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Stoehrs, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Cincinnati Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61554. The Survey maps it on the Pekin quadrangle.

Stoehrs within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

5,919 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Cincinnati Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cincinnati Township - 5,919 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stoehrs in 2017, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources032-2017
11 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources036-17
27 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources031-2017
1 October 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources114-17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell 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 Stoehrs: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elzie Hurley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pekin South SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tazewell 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
Powerton1.3 miles18
Midway1.7 miles18
Crescent2.2 miles18
Hawley (historical)2.7 miles18
South Pekin3.0 miles14
Schaeferville3.7 miles18
Pekin4.2 miles18
Talbott4.9 miles15

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 Q122598011The 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 423208. 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.