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Lake Ka-Ho, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Cahokia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62069. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Olive quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Lake Ka-Ho within Macoupin County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Ka-Ho fell from 237 to 194 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
2010237
2020194-43 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

522 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Cahokia Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cahokia Township - 522 words.

Fires near this place

21 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lake Ka-Ho between 2008 and 2014, burning about 40 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMADISON
5 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLAKE
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAGARVILLE
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSEIS TRUST
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRT 4
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLAKE
2 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROR
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-000056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macoupin 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 Ka-Ho: 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 Macoupin 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
Carlsburg1.7 miles12
Eagerville2.1 miles11
Mount Olive2.2 miles12
White City2.6 miles11
Benld3.1 miles11
Sawyerville3.5 miles11
Mount Clare4.2 miles11
Gillespie4.4 miles11

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 Ka-HoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5487351The 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 1922763. 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.