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Carillon, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lockport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60544. The Survey maps it on the Normantown quadrangle.

Carillon within Will County

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.

In the county-history sources

2,883 words on this township

The History of Will County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lockport Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lockport Township - 2,883 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Carillon in 2020, burning about 3 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 burning2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0002215
3 August 2020Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0001661
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000919
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Carillon: 6 plants, 5 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Mobil Oil Joilet RefinerySulfurPlant
(Facility) Union 76 Chicago RefinerySulfurPlant
Texaco Lockport PlantSulfurProducer
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Patterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plainfield Plant & MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Avery No. 3 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boughton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carillon in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
August 2025LightningCarillon$5,000Lightning struck a home along Hemingway Ct in Plainfield knocking out multiple electrical systems. Time was estimated based on radar data.
March 2023HailCarillon-Several reports of quarter size hail were received out of Romeoville. Time was estimated by radar.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCarillon-A semi truck was blown over on I-55 near the junction at Weber Rd. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.

Every storm 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
Lakewood Falls0.6 miles22
Marquettes Landing1.0 miles24
Wesglen1.0 miles23
Malibu Bay1.1 miles24
Heritage Place1.4 miles24
Westlake1.6 miles23
Meadowdale Estates1.6 miles24
Poplar Ridge1.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2356053. 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.