Vulcan, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Sugar Loaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62240. It stands on Old Prairie duPont Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle.

Vulcan 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Vulcan between 2006 and 2014, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Vulcan: 30 past producers, 4 plants, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. 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
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Alpha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Alpha Portland Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6	Clay	Past Producer
Mine Number 8	Clay	Past Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allen 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
East Carondelet	1.0 miles	27
Dupo	1.9 miles	27
North Dupo	2.6 miles	27
Bixby	2.7 miles	20
Sugarloaf Heights	2.8 miles	20
Falling Spring	3.0 miles	27
Phelps	3.1 miles	20
Stolle	4.0 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426564. 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.