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Teheran, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pennsylvania Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62664. The Survey maps it on the Easton quadrangle.

Teheran within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Teheran between 2009 and 2015, burning about 7 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 burning1
Other causes1

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
4 October 2015Other causesunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRESIDENCE
2 January 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBENDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Teheran: 1 producer. 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
Nelson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teheran in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindTeheran$40,000Four power poles were snapped off and four irrigation legs were flipped at 2900E and 850N about 5 miles west of Mason City. Several 18-inch diameter trees were snapped off at 2800E just north of 850N.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Teheran-A tornado briefly touched down in a field 2 miles east-southeast of Easton.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Easton2.4 miles13
Mason City5.6 miles14
Biggs5.7 miles13
Poplar City7.6 miles13
Luther8.0 miles14
Bishop9.3 miles14
Natrona9.4 miles13
Allen9.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122560315The 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 423235. 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.