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Thomasville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Bois D'Arc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62690. The Survey maps it on the Farmersville quadrangle.

Thomasville within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Thomasville in 2008, burning under an 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 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
25 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILE 82

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Farmersville3.2 miles12
White Oak4.6 miles14
Waggoner7.7 miles12
Harvel11.3 miles13
Zanesville11.6 miles10
Raymond12.5 miles13
Shop Creek14.8 miles10
Barnett15.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423238. 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.