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Dunes Park, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60087. It stands on Dead River. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle.

Dunes Park within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

1,620 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Benton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Benton Township - 1,620 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dunes Park between 2003 and 2018, burning about 1,288 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesNORTH UNIT
10 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12_2571
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-0001610
5 April 2015Misuse of fire by a minor750 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-314
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesZION
17 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSOUTH
19 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTERNO
19 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMOTEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dunes Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Zion City PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Beach Station1.3 miles16
Beach Park1.7 miles16
Zion1.8 miles16
Bancroft Corners1.9 miles16
Camp Logan3.0 miles16
Winthrop Harbor4.0 miles16
Waukegan4.1 miles18
Winthrop Harbor Station4.1 miles16

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 Q122558271The 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 407495. 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.