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Deer Park, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in LaSalle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61348. It stands on Bailey Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Salle quadrangle. 459 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Deer Park within LaSalle County

Population over time

2 figures

Deer Park fell from 492 to 459 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010492
2020459-33 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

2,263 words on this township

History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on LaSalle Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

La Salle embraces the E. ยข of T, 33, R. 1, except a small point between the Tinols and Vermillion rivers which belongs to Deer Park. Tt is crossed from north to south by the Iinois Central Railroads and from east to west by the Chicago, Roel Tsland & Pacific Railroad, and the Tlinois and Michigan Canal terminates in an artificial basin within its limits.

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on LaSalle Township.

Fires near this place

36 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Deer Park between 2008 and 2019, burning about 304 acres in total. 3 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning10
Natural3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
11 September 2012Debris and open burning210 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI&M
3 August 2019Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-00092
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1063
25 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10118
2 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1060
6 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-00080
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-00089
4 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Deer Park: 10 past producers, 9 producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
Unimin Utica Plant & PitSilicaPlant
Lasalle City PitStonePast Producer
Marquette Co Cement--Lowell PlantStoneProducer
Boehm No. 1 PitClayProducer
Boehm No. 2 PitClayProducer
Ristokrat Clay Pit No. 4ClayPast Producer
Alpha Cement Pitmertel Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha Portland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bailey Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C. Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Oglesby1.2 miles21
Bailey Falls (historical)1.3 miles21
Little Rock (historical)1.7 miles21
Jonesville2.2 miles21
Piety Hill2.4 miles21
Vermilionville3.3 miles27
Lowell3.4 miles21
Utica3.4 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on Deer ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5250824The 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 1748217. 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.