Fremont Center, Illinois
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fremont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60030. The Survey maps it on the Grayslake quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,146 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Fremont Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
There was afterward a post office established near the center of the town, called Fremont Center, and subsequently another, on Section 23, called Dean's Corners. A small village has grown up at the latter place, and it has become quite a center of trade for the surrounding country. The name of the place has recently been changed to Ivanhoe.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Fremont Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
7 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fremont Center between 2014 and 2018, burning about 7 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/undetermined | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-001887 |
| 11 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARTIN |
| 5 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17-113 |
| 1 December 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12118 |
| 29 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17-3909 |
| 1 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 110118 |
| 13 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-3606 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fremont Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mundelein Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fremont Center in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivanhoe | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Hainesville | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Fort Hill | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Grayslake | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Sylvan Lake | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Round Lake | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Round Lake Park | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Mundelein | 4.3 miles | 21 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Fremont Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5501561 | 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 422713. 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.









