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Tansill, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Golconda No. 1 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62938. The Survey maps it on the Brownfield quadrangle.

Tansill within Pope County

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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Tansill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources290
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1729
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources251110-22
24 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1635
23 March 1994Arson/incendiarism10 acresShawnee National Forestnot named
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1629
22 February 2004Debris and open burning25 acresShawnee National ForestCROMEENES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Tansill: 5 prospects, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Medeker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bay City MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, ZincProspect
Bay City MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, ZincProspect
Compton MineFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Compton MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Little Jean MineBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence1918, 1922
Little Jean MineBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Bethel Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Golconda Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tansill in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flood. 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
March 2015FloodTansill$10,000Minor flooding occurred on the Ohio River. At the Golconda river gage, the river crested at 48.60 feet on the 20th. Flood stage is 40 feet. A few families evacuated their homes in an area known as Hall Town. Large areas of agricultural land were flooded. Crop losses were negligible since planting was not yet underway.This flood was nearly identical to the flood crest of March, 2008.

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Homberg1.5 miles21
Hodgeville3.0 miles21
Rosebud3.1 miles21
Lewis Corner3.2 miles21
Bay City4.5 miles21
Brownfield4.6 miles21
Old Brownfield4.8 miles21
Temple Hill4.9 miles21

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 Q122598471The 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 425549. 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.