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County Glen, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60431. It stands on Lily Cache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

County Glen within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of County Glen between 2018 and 2019, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0604
20 March 2018Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieDRUMMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of County Glen: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
U S Refactories Div. MillMagnesiteProducer
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rockdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
River Glen0.2 miles23
Pheasant Landing0.3 miles23
Wellington Heights0.4 miles23
Sunset Ridge0.8 miles23
Riverbrook Estates1.1 miles23
Brighton Lakes1.1 miles23
Squires Mill1.2 miles23
Prairie Trail1.2 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122565080The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2355746. 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.