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Aptakisic, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60089. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Aptakisic within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

1,027 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Vernon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Vernon Township - 1,027 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Aptakisic in 2012, burning about 24 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
Fireworks2

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 July 2012Fireworks5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-2395-27
4 July 2012Fireworks19 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0848

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Aptakisic: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Aptakisic Sand Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cow Hey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aptakisic in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 3 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 2017HailAptakisic-no account filed
October 2006HailAptakisic-no account filed
October 2006HailAptakisic-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Prairie View1.2 miles23
Horatio Gardens1.3 miles23
Half Day1.5 miles23
Lincolnshire2.1 miles23
Long Grove2.7 miles23
Riverwoods2.9 miles23
Vernon Hills3.1 miles23
Indian Creek3.5 miles23

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 AptakisicAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4782208The 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 403584. 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.