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Taylor Springs, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hillsboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62089. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 724 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 631 feet above sea level.

Taylor Springs within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Taylor Springs grew from 690 to 724 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010690
2020724+34 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Springs between 2001 and 2005, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 May 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning50 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Taylor Springs: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Zinc. 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
(Facility) Hillsboro Zinc SmelterZincPlant
Hillsboro PitStonePast Producer
Montgomery County PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Hillsboro Heights1.7 miles10
Fairmont Place1.8 miles10
Hillsboro2.1 miles10
Schram City2.7 miles10
Butler5.2 miles12
Coffeen6.1 miles11
Irving6.9 miles10
Donnellson7.2 miles11

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 Taylor SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2179928The 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 419574. 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.