Bay View Garden, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Spring Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61611. It stands on Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring Bay quadrangle.

Bay View Garden within Woodford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

1893 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1932 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:62500
1933 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Dunlap quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Spring Bay quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Spring Bay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1996 USGS Spring Bay quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bay View Garden in 2018, burning under an acre 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 burning	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
24 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	075-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Spring Bay

Every fire recorded in Woodford 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 Bay View Garden: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Caul Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Construction Materials Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Peoria Concrete Construction Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Powley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spring Bay Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodford 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spring Bay	1.1 miles	23
Germantown Hills	4.1 miles	20
Oak Ridge	4.4 miles	20
Hickory Point	5.9 miles	20
Metamora	8.6 miles	19
Cazenovia	10.4 miles	19
Low Point	11.8 miles	19
Cruger	12.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403985. 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.