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White City, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62627. The Survey maps it on the Newmansville quadrangle.

White City within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of White City in 2014, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 January 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason 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
Saidora2.0 miles15
Wolf Lake2.4 miles15
Moscow (historical)5.1 miles16
Kilbourne6.1 miles15
Bath6.3 miles16
Conover6.7 miles15
Snicarte6.7 miles15
Long Branch8.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421031. 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.