Lake Catherine, 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 Trevor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fox Lake quadrangle. 1,279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Catherine fell from 1,379 to 1,279 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,379 | |
| 2020 | 1,279 | -100 (-7%) |
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 Fox Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Fox Lake 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
12 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lake Catherine between 2008 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
| 10 May 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 20-1361 |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-1009 |
| 5 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HEATHER RIDGE |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 857 |
| 11 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SPRING GROVE |
| 31 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | UNK |
| 17 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 80 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Catherine: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barthel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fox Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Techert Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Thelen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channel Lake | 0.2 miles | 20 | |
| Antioch | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Grass Lake | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Loon Lake | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Klondike | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Lotus Woods | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Fox Lake Hills | 4.9 miles | 20 | |
| Lake Villa | 5.3 miles | 20 |
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 Catherine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575869 | The 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 1821998. 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.









