Exposition View, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60506. It lies near North Aurora Island. The Survey maps it on the Aurora North quadrangle.

Exposition View within Kane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1932 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Aurora North 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 Exposition View 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/incendiarism	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
8 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0000121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Exposition View: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Feltes Pit No. 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fox Valley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Aurora Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hendrickson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riverbank Stone and Lime Quarry No2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Aurora	1.3 miles	15
Randall Hills	1.3 miles	15
Mooseheart	2.2 miles	15
Heritage West	2.4 miles	15
Aurora	2.5 miles	15
Marywood	2.8 miles	15
Heaton Park	2.9 miles	15
Tanglewood	3.0 miles	15

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 Q122569908

The 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 408147. 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.