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Lake Camelot, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61547. It stands on Largent Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peoria West quadrangle. 1,798 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Lake Camelot within Peoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Camelot grew from 1,686 to 1,798 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
20101,686
20201,798+112 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

4,494 words on this township

The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Limestone Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Limestone Township - 4,494 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lake Camelot between 2009 and 2012, burning about 2 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKILLIAN
3 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMURR
23 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9273
21 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9270
2 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources904

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake Camelot: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Peoria 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
Smithville3.7 miles16
Tuscarora4.3 miles18
Mapleton4.5 miles18
Hollis4.5 miles18
Maxwell4.6 miles19
Bellevue5.0 miles19
Bartonville5.0 miles19
Hanna City5.1 miles16

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 Lake CamelotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475160The 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 2629893. 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.