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Bloomfield West, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Du Page Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60490. The Survey maps it on the Normantown quadrangle.

Bloomfield West within Will County

On record in Bloomfield West

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield West in 2020, burning about 4 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/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2020Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0001661
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000919
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000918
13 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000723
9 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0002593
1 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0002295

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield West: 7 past producers, 4 plants, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Patterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield Plant & MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Yackley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Avery No. 3 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Barbers Corners PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Barbers Corners Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Boughton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Dupage River Quarry E.E. HaulingStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Illinois Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lemont Quarry & Mill Yard 360Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Will 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
Pheasant Chase0.4 miles22
Somerfield0.5 miles22
Southgate Park0.6 miles22
Indian Chase Meadows0.7 miles22
Indian Boundary0.9 miles22
Bradford Place0.9 miles24
Drafke1.0 miles24
Cider Creek1.1 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122570828The 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 2356007. 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.