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Tison, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Long Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62977. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Walpole quadrangle.

Tison within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tison in 2009, burning about 1,168 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMOORE
5 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use1,000 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMASSEY
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeRALEIGH
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tison in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. 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 2011HailTison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Francis3.3 miles17
Long Branch3.3 miles19
Raleigh4.4 miles19
Galatia6.1 miles19
Saline City6.2 miles17
Beulah Heights6.4 miles17
Texas City6.5 miles17
Eldorado6.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423245. 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.

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.