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Bushs Corners, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Libertyville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60048. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle.

Bushs Corners within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

2,542 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 Libertyville Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Libertyville Township - 2,542 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bushs Corners between 2012 and 2018, burning about 11 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9118
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources8118
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEC-79
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-2269
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0482
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources60118
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1522
30 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1413

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Bushs Corners: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mundelein PitStonePast Producer
Unamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lake County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake County Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Libertyville1.8 miles19
Rockefeller2.0 miles19
Mundelein2.5 miles21
Harris Corners3.1 miles19
Ivanhoe3.3 miles21
Leithton3.4 miles23
Wildwood3.4 miles19
Oak Grove3.5 miles19

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 Q122558183The 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 1772824. 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.