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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.

Lake Catherine within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,379
20201,279-100 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

2,433 words on this township

The 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 2008

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
8 July 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218402
10 May 2020Natural1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-1361
9 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-1009
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHEATHER RIDGE
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources857
11 April 2014Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSPRING GROVE
31 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNK
17 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources80

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barthel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Techert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thelen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Channel Lake0.2 miles20
Antioch2.0 miles20
Grass Lake2.3 miles20
Loon Lake3.2 miles20
Klondike3.9 miles20
Lotus Woods4.5 miles20
Fox Lake Hills4.9 miles20
Lake Villa5.3 miles20

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 CatherineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575869The 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.