Glen Oak, Illinois

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.

• Lake Ellyn Parklisted 2017 · 1.0 miles away
• Lilacia Park Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1908 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glen Oak 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Clarendon Hills
• Downers Grove
• Elmhurst
• Flowerfield
• Fullersburg
• Highland Hills

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glen Oak: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.

Every working recorded in DuPage County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421820. 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.