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Timmons, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in West Marion precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. It stands on Limb Branch. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle.

Timmons within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Timmons between 1993 and 2016, burning about 79 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined16
Natural3
Other causes3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeLIGHTNING SNAG 148
24 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeGRASS
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 48
11 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeAREA6
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeOLINFAM1-3
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMILE MARKER 47
14 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeALUM
14 June 2011Naturalunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeAREA 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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 Timmons: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Williamson Co. Hwy. Dept.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timmons in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 flash flood. 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
May 2016Flash FloodTimmons-Numerous streets were flooded in the eastern part of Marion. A trained spotter measured one to two inches of rain in an hour.
April 2014Flash FloodTimmons-Water was over several city streets in Marion.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Bainbridge2.1 miles20
Marion2.1 miles20
Chamness (historical)2.7 miles20
Dog Walk3.7 miles18
Hudgens4.1 miles20
Eden Park4.3 miles18
Crenshaw Crossing4.4 miles18
Spillertown4.5 miles18

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 Q122539867The 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 1824241. 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.