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Estates of Indian Creek, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ela Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60047. The Survey maps it on the Lake Zurich quadrangle.

Estates of Indian Creek within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Estates of Indian Creek between 2012 and 2017, burning about 30 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2

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 2012Fireworks5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-2395-27
4 July 2012Fireworks19 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0848
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0482
5 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-113
29 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-3909

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Estates of Indian Creek: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, Stone, 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
Filter Materials Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Mundelein PitStonePast Producer
Unamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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
Creekside of Long Grove0.5 miles21
Tiffany Estates0.6 miles21
Diamond Lake0.9 miles21
Indian Creek Country Estates1.0 miles21
Rambling Hills West1.0 miles21
Rambling Hills East1.1 miles21
Highview1.2 miles21
Gilmer1.2 miles21

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 Q122551526The 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 2037903. 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.