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Illmo, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Kelso Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63780. It stands on Hobbs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scott City quadrangle.

Illmo within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Illmo between 2005 and 2018, burning about 195 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 May 2018Arson/incendiarism90 acresShawnee National ForestREIMAN
5 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreShawnee National ForestGALE FIRE
3 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBEAN
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresShawnee National ForestREIMANN ROAD
18 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176677-10082-04182018-1049
1 April 2015Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121513-10082-04012015-1324
23 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesASHMAN
17 March 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee National ForestREIMANN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Illmo: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Shawnee Special Use Silica Deposit 3SilicaOccurrence
Aba PitClayPast Producer
Marquette Clay PitClayProducer
Miss.River Shale ExposureClayProspect
Federal MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grays Point Quarry #2 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Marquette Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oglesby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Southeast Mo Stone Co Quarry & PlntStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Illmo in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024Thunderstorm WindIllmo-The wind gust observation occurred at the Cape Girardeau airport ASOS.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Hilltop0.8 miles21
Scott City0.9 miles21
Grays Point (historical)2.6 miles22
Kelso2.9 miles21
Zewapeta4.4 miles22
New York (historical)5.0 miles22
Commerce5.5 miles22
Kagel6.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 731590. 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.