Strawns Crossing, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Alexander precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62650. The Survey maps it on the Literberry quadrangle.

Strawns Crossing within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1932 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Literberry quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Strawns Crossing between 2008 and 2016, burning about 179 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	11
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	YORK
18 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	SOI MM15
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BROCKHOUSE
25 June 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	11235
11 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	SOI I72 @ MM58
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	ARMSTRONG
26 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	EVANS1
5 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1065

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Sinclair	1.9 miles	12
Brownton (historical)	2.6 miles	12
Savage (historical)	3.2 miles	12
Portuguese Hill	4.0 miles	12
Arnold	4.5 miles	12
Literberry	5.4 miles	12
Jacksonville	5.5 miles	12
Orleans	5.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122552387

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 423213. 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.