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.
Population over time
2 figuresDeer 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 492 | |
| 2020 | 459 | -33 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1893 USGS Lasalle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,263 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
36 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 210 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I&M |
| 3 August 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-00092 |
| 28 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1063 |
| 25 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10118 |
| 2 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1060 |
| 6 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-00080 |
| 28 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-00089 |
| 4 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1067 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unimin Utica Plant & Pit | Silica | Plant | ||
| Lasalle City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Marquette Co Cement--Lowell Plant | Stone | Producer | ||
| Boehm No. 1 Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Boehm No. 2 Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Ristokrat Clay Pit No. 4 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Alpha Cement Pitmertel Gravel Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Alpha Portland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bailey Falls Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| C. Locke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oglesby | 1.2 miles | 21 | |
| Bailey Falls (historical) | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Little Rock (historical) | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Jonesville | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Piety Hill | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Vermilionville | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| Lowell | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Utica | 3.4 miles | 21 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5250824 | The 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.









