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Lake Summerset, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Laona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61019. The Survey maps it on the Davis quadrangle. 2,342 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Lake Summerset within Winnebago County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Summerset grew from 2,048 to 2,342 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
20102,048
20202,342+294 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

639 words on this township

The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Laona Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Laona Township - 639 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Summerset between 2016 and 2019, burning about 500 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/undetermined1
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
30 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCK CO. FIRE
26 March 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources41

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Lake Summerset: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Dornink QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
D. Zettle PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Davis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Faulkner Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rees QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richardson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Salem PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Summerset in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020HailLake Summerset-Multiple reports of golf ball size hail were received from the Lake Summerset and Durand areas.
March 2026HailLake Summerset-no account filed
April 2026HailLake Summerset-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Durand3.3 miles15
Pecatonica9.8 miles15
Shirland10.2 miles17
Harrison10.7 miles17
Westlake Village11.6 miles15
Wempletown12.5 miles18
Seward15.0 miles14
Winnebago15.2 miles18

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 SummersetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575775The 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 411736. 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.