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Arlington Heights, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Capital Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62702. The Survey maps it on the Springfield East quadrangle.

Arlington Heights within Sangamon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

9,795 words on this township

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Capital Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Capital Township - 9,795 words.

Fires near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Arlington Heights between 2010 and 2014, burning about 95 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000148
24 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000096
23 March 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000093
21 March 2014Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000087
21 March 2011Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1193
15 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000082
4 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10349
14 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10334

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sangamon County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Arlington Heights: 5 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. ClayClayProspect
Springfield Clay Prod.Co.PitclayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Sangamon County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Springfield City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clear Lake DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverton Barrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Springfield Pit Solomon ServiceSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon 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
Starne0.4 miles20
Grandview0.9 miles20
Clear Lake1.8 miles20
Ridgely1.9 miles19
East Springfield2.0 miles19
Bissell2.1 miles20
Devereux Heights2.1 miles20
Streadle2.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403610. 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.