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Texas Junction, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Murphysboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62966. It lies near Mount Carbon. The Survey maps it on the Murphysboro quadrangle.

Texas Junction within Jackson County

On record in Texas Junction

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 within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Texas Junction between 2010 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestFIVE POINTS
16 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestHWY 149
23 March 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShawnee National ForestSHOAL CREEK
12 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLITTLE LAKE WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Mount Carbon0.5 miles18
Murphysboro0.7 miles18
Harrison2.6 miles18
Grange Hall4.1 miles18
Poplar Ridge4.8 miles23
Etherton5.1 miles23
Carbondale6.1 miles22
Evergreen Terrace6.3 miles22

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 Q122598396The 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 1772239. 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.