Whitesville, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62946. It stands on Spring Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rudement quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Whitesville within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

1916 USGS Equality quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Equality quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rudement quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 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 Rudement quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Whitesville (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.2 acres	Shawnee National Forest	GAPE HOLLOW
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	EAGLE
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Shawnee National Forest	CAMPFIRE II
5 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named
4 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named
19 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Shawnee National Forest	BEECH HOLLOW
19 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	SULPHUR SPRINGS
11 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	FORWE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitesville (historical): 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
King	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
King	Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Saline 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
Somerset	1.9 miles	22
Saline Valley Store (historical)	1.9 miles	22
Rudement	3.4 miles	22
Pankeyville	4.3 miles	20
Garden Heights	4.3 miles	20
Eagle	4.3 miles	22
Mitchellsville	4.4 miles	20
Horseshoe	4.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1821027. 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.