Chautauqua Park, Illinois

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.

• 1925 USGS Havana quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Havana quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Havana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Havana quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Centennial History of Mason County, Including a Sketch of the Early History of Illinois, Its Physical Peculiarities, Soils, Climate, Production, Etc., published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Chautauqua Park between 1999 and 2019, burning about 285 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Baldwin Beach
• Quiver Beach
• Havana
• Buzzville
• Eckard
• Lakewood

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chautauqua Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mason County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chautauqua Park in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Mason County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 405998. 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.