Westminster, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Tower Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62571. The Survey maps it on the Lakewood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Westminster within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1942 USGS Shelbyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Shelbyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Lakewood quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Lakewood quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

4,289 words on this township

Historic Sketch and Biographical Album of Shelby County, Illinois, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Tower Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Tower Hill Township - 4,289 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Westminster (historical) between 2008 and 2013, burning about 18 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
16 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	STATEPANA1
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	130026
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	130025
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BLAND2
6 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	UNION
18 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	ROSINSKI
18 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	ROSINSKI
17 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	WEEDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Tower Hill	2.5 miles	13
Williamsburg Hill	5.0 miles	13
Williamsburg (historical)	5.2 miles	13
Lakewood	5.3 miles	13
Dollville	5.3 miles	13
Oconee	8.1 miles	11
Henton	8.5 miles	13
Herrick	9.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2014008. 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.