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Wine Hill, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Wine Hill precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62288. The Survey maps it on the Welge quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Wine Hill within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wine Hill between 2013 and 2017, burning about 8 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources064-2013
10 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources510517
21 March 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources26-2014
23 February 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources270217
17 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources200217

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wine Hill: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caseyville Shale ExposureClayProspect
Hornbastel Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wine Hill in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024HailWine Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Welge2.1 miles19
Leanderville2.2 miles19
Shiloh Hill3.3 miles20
Steeleville4.1 miles12
Bremen4.2 miles19
Randolph4.2 miles19
Percy5.5 miles13
Kampenville6.2 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Wine HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8024894The 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 423321. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.