Lake Bluff, 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 7 records

• Lester Armour Houselisted 1984
• Philip D. Armour III Houselisted 1996
• William McCormick Blair Estatelisted 2008
• Mrs. C. Morse Ely Houselisted 2000
• John Griffith Store Buildinglisted 2003
• Lake Bluff Uptown Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2006
• Howard and Lucy Linn Houselisted 2005

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.

• 1906 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:24000

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Shields Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lake Bluff between 2017 and 2020, burning about 41 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.

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:

• Creamery Corners
• Deerpath
• Everett
• Kennedy
• Lake Forest
• Melody

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Bluff: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. 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 Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Bluff in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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 411702. 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.