BlockFullersburg, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Downers Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60521. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale quadrangle. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
On record in Fullersburg
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Graue Milllisted 1975 · 0.6 miles away
Robbins Park Historic Districtlisted 2008 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,959 words on this townshipHistory Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 names this settlement in its chapter on Downers Grove Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The population of Downer's Grove at this time is about 1,200. The people are chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, and hence the town contains no villages of much importance. Near the north east part of the town there is quite a smart little "huddle," generally known as Brush Till; but at present we believe it is dignified by the title of Fullersburg. The first settlement at Fullersburg was made by Orente Grant, in 1836.
Passage source: History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fullersburg in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fullersburg: 10 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downers Grove City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bellwood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Federal Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Summit Quarry Consumers Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Superior Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Brook | 1.2 miles | 23 | |
| Hinsdale | 1.5 miles | 23 | |
| Clarendon Hills | 2.4 miles | 23 | |
| Mammoth Springs | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Oakbrook Terrace | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Westmont | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Willowbrook | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Yorkfield | 3.5 miles | 23 |
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 Fullersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23710584 | 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 1771758. 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.