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Highland Hills, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60148. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton quadrangle.

Highland Hills within DuPage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

2,155 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on York Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Highland Hills 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
Natural1

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
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Highland Hills: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Kugler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Glen Ellyn City PitStonePast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Hills in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010LightningHighland Hills$200,000Lightning struck a house on South Vista Avenue causing the roof and second floor to catch fire. Three people inside the house escaped without injury. The house was declared uninhabitable.
April 2013HailHighland Hills-Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of Interstate 88 and Highland Avenue.

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
York Center1.0 miles23
Utopia1.7 miles23
Flowerfield2.0 miles21
Oakbrook Terrace2.1 miles23
Lombard2.1 miles19
Downers Grove2.8 miles21
Glen Oak2.9 miles19
Villa Park2.9 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421845. 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.