Stone Fort, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Makanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62958. The Survey maps it on the Makanda quadrangle.

Stone Fort within Jackson County

On record in Stone Fort

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Giant City Stone Fort Sitelisted 2002 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

1922 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
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 Makanda quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1996 USGS Makanda quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stone Fort between 1995 and 2020, burning about 24 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
11 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	ROCKYCOMF1
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	GENTRY
8 April 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKCAMP#1
7 April 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	DKLINE#1
3 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	ARROW FIRE
14 April 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	ROWAN
27 February 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	PINE RIDGE
23 November 2008	Other causes	under an acre	Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge	GENTRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Makanda	0.8 miles	21
Boskydell	3.4 miles	22
Southern Hills	5.6 miles	22
Evergreen Terrace	5.6 miles	22
Carbondale	7.2 miles	22
Pomona	7.4 miles	23
Etherton	7.9 miles	23
Eltham (historical)	8.0 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423209. 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.