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Hillside Manor, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60901. The Survey maps it on the West Kankakee quadrangle.

Hillside Manor within Kankakee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

45 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Hillside Manor between 2008 and 2020, burning about 66 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning14
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
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOGNIS
18 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMITCHELL
13 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources101811
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0004144
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2019-1883
6 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOND
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0003283
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4059

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kankakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hillside Manor: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kankakee Highway Pit No. 1StonePast Producer
Azzarelli Pit 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blend Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grasso and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ohrt Rd. Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Route 113 Gravel Pit Azzarell:Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kankakee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillside Manor in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 1 tornado, 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
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Hillside Manor-Several photos and videos were taken of a narrow, rope-like tornado tracking across fields along Vansiding Road south of Limestone. Eyewitness accounts indicate that this tornado was on the ground for no more than one minute. With no known damage caused by this tornado, it had been assigned the EF-Unknown (EF-U) rating.
March 2026HailHillside Manor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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
Greenwich1.1 miles15
Limestone1.6 miles15
West Kankakee3.2 miles15
Lehigh3.7 miles12
Bourbonnais4.6 miles15
Kankakee4.6 miles14
Irwin4.8 miles15
Bradley4.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1810645. 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.