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Wagon Creek Heaven, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Tunnel Hill precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62972. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goreville quadrangle.

Wagon Creek Heaven within Johnson 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Wagon Creek Heaven between 1992 and 2019, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13165
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestJUNCTION FALLS RD
23 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresShawnee National ForestCOPPERHEAD ROAD
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresShawnee National ForestBUCK
17 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresShawnee National ForestNAVAJO LANE
21 March 2014Debris and open burning21 acresShawnee National ForestWEB
20 March 2014Debris and open burning23 acresShawnee National ForestHENRY
28 February 1992Smoking13 acresShawnee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wagon Creek Heaven: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, 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
Shawnee Low Interest Fluorine DepositBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Tunnel Hill Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Fluorine OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorine OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Egyptian Hills0.7 miles20
Robinwood0.7 miles20
Pharoahs Gardens0.9 miles20
Sugar Creek Ranch1.7 miles20
Eagle Point Bay1.8 miles20
Deer Ridge2.2 miles20
Goreville4.4 miles20
Tunnel Hill5.2 miles19

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 Q122541313The 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 1815910. 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.