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Talbott, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Spring Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61546. The Survey maps it on the Glasford quadrangle.

Talbott within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

8,010 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 Spring Lake Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Spring Lake Township - 8,010 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Talbott between 2009 and 2018, burning about 3 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
17 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2018235
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2018-76
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSUNSET
12 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources257

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 Talbott: 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
Radville3.3 miles15
Parkland3.7 miles15
Stoehrs4.9 miles18
Powerton5.9 miles18
Midway6.5 miles18
Crescent6.8 miles18
South Pekin7.1 miles14
Hawley (historical)7.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 419522. 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.