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Fox River Estates, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in St. Charles Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60174. It lies near Five Islands. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle.

Fox River Estates within Kane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

3,815 words on this township

History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Charles Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Charles Township - 3,815 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fox River Estates between 2013 and 2014, burning about 84 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-562
18 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-615
1 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-0548
4 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-445
7 April 2014Arson/incendiarism50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-340
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-339
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-337
6 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-300

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fox River Estates: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 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
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammond Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Meyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Elgin Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Van Acker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
West Bartlett Plant Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox River Estates in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2010LightningFox River Estates$10,000Lightning struck a home on Fox Glen Drive and started a fire in the attic.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindFox River Estates$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the Valley View area.
June 2014FloodFox River Estates-Approximately 8 to 10 inches of standing water was reported along Surrey Road. A CoCoRaHS observer near Sugar Grove measured 2.22 inches of rain in 35 minutes.
August 2014HailFox River Estates-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fox River Heights0.4 miles17
Novak Park0.4 miles17
Valley View0.7 miles17
Five Island Park0.8 miles17
River Grange Lakes1.0 miles17
Farmington1.1 miles17
Redgate Ridge1.3 miles17
Coleman1.4 miles17

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 Q122545742The 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 408640. 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.