BlockWatkins Ford, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Eddyville No. 6 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62985. The Survey maps it on the Stonefort quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Harrisburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Stonefort quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Stonefort quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
63 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Watkins Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | JACKSON FALLS CAMPFIRE #2 |
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | JACKSON FALLS CAMPFIRE 1 |
| 26 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | MCCONNEL |
| 12 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | BELLSMITH SPRINGS |
| 11 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Shawnee National Forest | FALLS |
| 21 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Shawnee National Forest | MCCONNEL |
| 2 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | BELL SMITH |
| 30 June 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | JAY GAP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122557608 | The 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 425625. 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.