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.
Population over time
2 figuresApple 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 558 | |
| 2020 | 574 | +16 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Scales Mound East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque South quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Thompson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
4,174 words on this townshipThe 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 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 March 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GRENDA |
| 19 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WATSON |
| 17 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SCOUT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford Mining and Milling Co. Mine | Lead, Zinc | Unknown | 1905, 1915 | |
| Brown Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Schultz Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| W. Hammer Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Westaby Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apple Canyon Lake | $500,000 | More 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 2024 | Tornado (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 2016 | Hail | Apple Canyon Lake | - | The spotter also reported strong winds and torrential rain with the hail. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Apple Canyon Lake | - | A trained spotter measured 2 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Apple 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 2008 | Hail | Apple Canyon Lake | - | Golf ball-sized hail fell just south of Apple River Canyon State Park, IL around 9:47 pm. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schapville | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Woodbine | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Millville | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Scales Mound | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Apple River | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Sweet Home (historical) | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Guilford | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Elizabeth | 7.9 miles | 14 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4781141 | The 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.







