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Heritage Lake, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mackinaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61755. The Survey maps it on the Mackinaw quadrangle. 1,523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Heritage Lake within Tazewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Heritage Lake grew from 1,520 to 1,523 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,520
20201,523+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

7,686 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mackinaw Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mackinaw Township - 7,686 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Heritage Lake between 2011 and 2013, burning about 18 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARTINS
17 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWOODFORD
2 April 2011Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTAZ
6 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLEGION
18 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesQUEEN
11 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFRITZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Heritage Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Percy Ragar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rokey Acres PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rokey Acres Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tazewell 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
Mackinaw1.8 miles14
Lilly2.2 miles14
New Castle (historical)2.9 miles14
Allentown3.8 miles15
Tazewell4.4 miles13
Walnut5.0 miles13
Deer Creek5.7 miles14
Mayfair6.4 miles15

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 Heritage LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5738931The 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 2629894. 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.