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Five Points, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Shields Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60064. It stands on Pettibone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waukegan quadrangle.

Five Points within Lake County

On record in Five Points

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 18 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

4,524 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Shields Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Shields Township - 4,524 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2012 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9118
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources8118
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEC-79
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-2269
10 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12_2571
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources60118
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1522
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-971

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Five Points: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. 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
Abbotts North Chicago Iodine PlantIodinePlant
Fansteel #1 Tantalum PlantTantalum, Niobium (Columbium), TungstenProducer
Lake County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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
Great Lakes0.7 miles18
Wells Corners1.6 miles19
North Chicago1.6 miles18
Moran Corners1.8 miles19
Creamery Corners2.2 miles19
Green Oaks2.5 miles19
Lake Bluff2.5 miles18
Rondout2.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772866. 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.