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Cedar Brook, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61244. The Survey maps it on the Port Byron quadrangle.

Cedar Brook within Rock Island County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

807 words on this township

Historic Rock Island County; History of the Settlement of Rock Island County from the Earliest Known Period to the Present Time ... Embracing References of Importance, and Including a Biography of Rock Island County's Well-known Citizens, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hampton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hampton Township - 807 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Brook between 2008 and 2018, burning about 5 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 burning5
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
4 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTREE
3 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-111
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-108 MM 1 I-88
6 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-090
12 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-043
16 December 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-200
12 November 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Brook: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Le Claire QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Rock Island 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
Hampton1.9 miles21
Babcock2.3 miles21
Rapids City2.3 miles23
Barstow2.8 miles23
Silvis3.8 miles21
Port Byron3.9 miles23
Carbon Cliff4.4 miles14
East Moline5.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 425791. 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.