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Summer Hill, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Atlas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62363. The Survey maps it on the Summer Hill quadrangle.

Summer Hill within Pike County

On record in Summer Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

66 words on this township

History of Pike County. A Centennial Address Delivered by Hon. William A. Grimshaw, at Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois, July 4, 1876, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Atlas Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Atlas Township - 66 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Summer Hill between 2008 and 2014, burning about 63 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
26 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use40 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140052
13 March 2013Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130018
11 March 2014Debris and open burning11 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140041
26 January 2008Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEL DARA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Summer Hill: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Barry Plant No. 6, DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Hartford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summer Hill in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2020HailSummer Hill-Another wide swath of large hail up to the size of quarters fell as the storm slowly moved to the south.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSummer Hill-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees along Highway 54 southwest of Summer Hill.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindSummer Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
New Hartford2.1 miles11
Atlas3.5 miles11
Taylor4.4 miles11
Martinsburg4.6 miles13
Rockport4.8 miles14
Moores (historical)5.9 miles19
El Dara6.5 miles11
Horton6.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 419343. 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.