BlockHickory Corners, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Antioch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60002. It stands on Hastings Creek. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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 Antioch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,433 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Antioch Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Antioch Township - 2,433 words.
Fires near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Corners between 2012 and 2018, burning about 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218402 |
| 2 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218249 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218175 |
| 25 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-0416 |
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-0361 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218145 |
| 17 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.4 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-198 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carney Corners | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Dunn Corners | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Slocum Corners | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Crawford Corners | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Schaufel Corners | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Millburn | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Kelley Corners | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Rosecrans | 3.4 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 410140. 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.