BlockWest Sandford, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Elbridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61944. The Survey maps it on the Sandford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1947 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
17,476 words on this townshipThe History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Elbridge Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Elbridge Township - 17,476 words.
Fires near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of West Sandford between 2002 and 2007, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 31 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 December 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 December 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 November 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 November 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
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 Q122563834 | 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 1736564. 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.