Tillman, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Centreville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62239. It stands on Hickman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle.

Tillman within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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.

1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
1933 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1940 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tillman in 2009, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 January 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	255 FOREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Tillman: 5 past producers, 4 plants, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Alpha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Casper Stolle Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
East St. Louis Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Krause #1 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Lohrum Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pepper Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
T.W. Stolle Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stolle	1.0 miles	27
Imbs	1.3 miles	27
Falling Spring	1.8 miles	27
Westview	2.7 miles	21
Centerville Station	2.7 miles	21
North Dupo	2.7 miles	27
Maplewood Park	3.0 miles	27
Cahokia	3.1 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426554. 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.