Erin Hills, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Homer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60491. The Survey maps it on the Sag Bridge quadrangle.

Erin Hills within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1928 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000

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 Erin Hills in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	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
1 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0002215

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Erin Hills: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) Union 76 Chicago Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Lemont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barge Slip Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lemont Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Will 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saddle Brook Run	0.8 miles	26
Spring Creek Woods	0.9 miles	26
Chickasaw	1.0 miles	26
Marilyn's Estates	1.1 miles	23
Dawn Wood	1.1 miles	26
Country Squire	1.2 miles	26
Twin Creek	1.2 miles	26
Golden Oak Estates	1.3 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2355565. 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.