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Apple Canyon Lake, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Thompson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61001. The Survey maps it on the Scales Mound East quadrangle. 574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Apple Canyon Lake within Jo Daviess County

Population over time

2 figures

Apple Canyon Lake grew from 558 to 574 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010558
2020574+16 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Thompson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Constitution of the United States, published 1878 - Thompson Township

M R S. Mary

owns 330 acres, valued at $6,600 ; she was born in Rush Tp. April 3,1845 ; was married March 20, 1862, to Wm. Westaby, a native of Lincolnshire, Eng.; he was killed Jan. 14, 1870, while rolling a log at Thompson's mills ; on Jan. 18, 1871, she married Richard Darnill, a native of England ; he died Sept. 29, 1874; she has six children : Joseph Henry, Nellie May, and Charles James Westaby; Richard Wm., Peter Gideon, and Frederick Edmond Darnill; she is independent in religion.

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In the county-history sources

4,174 words on this township

The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Constitution of the United States, published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Thompson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Thompson Township - 4,174 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Apple Canyon Lake between 2010 and 2011, burning about 6 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 March 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGRENDA
19 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWATSON
17 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSCOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jo Daviess County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Apple Canyon Lake: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
Rockford Mining and Milling Co. MineLead, ZincUnknown1905, 1915
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schultz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
W. Hammer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Westaby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jo Daviess County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apple Canyon Lake in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindApple Canyon Lake$500,000More than half the homes in Woodbine, IL suffered some degree of damage as severe storms moved through the area around 1125 pm April 5. Most of the damage was from downed trees and limbs. Two parked semi-tractor trailers were overturned. Some utility poles snapped near the ground. A garden shed was blown over and other outbuildings were damaged. Shingles, sheets of tin roofing, and tree debris littered the streets. Several homes north of Woodbine and near Apple Canyon Lake sustained damage from fallen trees. This report was from the Freeport Journal Standard.
July 2024Tornado (EF2)Apple Canyon Lake-A tornado developed northwest of Stockton in Jo Daviess County, and moved E/SE along an intermittent 15 mile path, before lifting near Lena in Stephenson County. In Jo Daviess County, the tornado snapped a wooden power pole near the base, snapped tree trunks, and impacted a farmstead, with damage to an outbuilding and grain elevator supports. The most significant damage in Jo Daviess County was rated EF-2, with maximum winds around 115 mph. The tornado crossed into Stephenson County about a third of a mile south of W. Gerbick Road, around 18:01 CST. A public photo showed the tornado near Lena before it dissipated around 18:09 CST. There was no observable damage in Stephenson County.
August 2016HailApple Canyon Lake-The spotter also reported strong winds and torrential rain with the hail.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindApple Canyon Lake-A trained spotter measured 2 inch diameter tree limbs down.
July 2011HailApple Canyon Lake-Quarter sized hail fell at Apple Canyon Lake or about 6 miles south southwest of Apple River, IL around 804 pm CDT July 27.
May 2008HailApple Canyon Lake-Golf ball-sized hail fell just south of Apple River Canyon State Park, IL around 9:47 pm.

Every storm recorded in Jo Daviess 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
Schapville3.1 miles15
Woodbine5.4 miles14
Millville5.9 miles14
Scales Mound6.4 miles16
Apple River6.6 miles12
Sweet Home (historical)6.7 miles14
Guilford7.6 miles16
Elizabeth7.9 miles14

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 Apple Canyon LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4781141The 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 2629890. 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.