Colonial Gardens, 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.

• 1918 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1938 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rockford North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Rockford North quadrangle1:24000

The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877 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 4 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Gardens between 2003 and 2004, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Forest Hills Village
• Genet
• Harlem
• Jonesville
• Loves Park
• Machesney Park

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Colonial Gardens: 17 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Winnebago County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colonial Gardens in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 Winnebago 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 1829451. 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.