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Stubblefield, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Central Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62246. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Creek quadrangle. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Stubblefield within Bond 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Stubblefield between 2009 and 2014, burning about 48 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7

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
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13124
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13117
20 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13073
9 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14054
6 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTEELE
30 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14074
23 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14067
23 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPRATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond 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 Stubblefield: 2 plants. 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
Bob Buehne Supply Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
R. M. Rench Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stubblefield in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Flash FloodStubblefield-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded, including Illinois Route 127 near Greenville.
May 2024HailStubblefield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bond 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
Dudleyville3.1 miles12
Greenville4.1 miles12
Pocahontas4.2 miles11
Pierron5.7 miles11
Old Ripley6.4 miles11
Beaver Creek6.8 miles12
Smithboro7.4 miles13
Durley7.9 miles13

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 StubblefieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7627341The 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 423215. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.