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Dunham Castle, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in St. Charles Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60184. It stands on Country Club Road Run. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle.

Dunham Castle within Kane County

On record in Dunham Castle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

3,815 words on this township

History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Charles Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Charles Township - 3,815 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dunham Castle between 2013 and 2014, burning about 72 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-562
4 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-445
7 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-177
7 April 2014Arson/incendiarism50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-340
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-339
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-337
6 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-300
5 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-328

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Dunham Castle: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 3 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Riverdale Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Hammond Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Meyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Elgin Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Van Acker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Kane 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
Wayne0.1 miles17
Valley View1.7 miles17
Fox River Estates2.1 miles17
Fox River Heights2.3 miles17
Coleman2.3 miles17
Surrey Woods2.3 miles17
Farmington2.4 miles17
Five Island Park2.4 miles17

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 Q122539274The 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 422640. 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.