Clearing, 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.

• 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1928 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 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 2 fires within 5 miles of Clearing in 2005, burning about 1 acre 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:

• Archer Limits
• Bedford Park
• Bridgeview
• Burbank
• Countryside
• Forest View

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Clearing: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Cook County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearing in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 Cook 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 1737446. 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.