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Eola, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Naperville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60502. The Survey maps it on the Naperville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Eola within DuPage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eola in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
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
8 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Eola: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Aurora QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hendrickson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
M M Erb Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Warrenville Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eola in 2 storm reports between 2025 and 2026: 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2025FloodEola-Multiple reports were received of minor street flooding in the Naperville, Bolingbrook, and Woodridge areas.
March 2026HailEola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Batavia Junction1.2 miles20
Frontenac2.3 miles22
Warrenhurst3.5 miles20
Warrenville4.6 miles20
Naperville5.1 miles20
Winfield7.3 miles20
West Chicago7.7 miles20
Jewell Road8.9 miles20

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 EolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5381754The 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 421790. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.