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Lake Villa, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lake Villa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60046. It lies near Cedar Island. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle. 8,741 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lake Villa within Lake County

On record in Lake Villa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Villa grew from 8,741 to 8,741 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
20108,741
20208,7410 (0%)

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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lake Villa between 2008 and 2019, burning about 21 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARTIN
7 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01622
4 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01582
21 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-1966
16 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBLACKHAWK
18 May 2013Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesOVERLOOK
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-0975
7 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGRANT HS DIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Villa in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindLake Villa$25,000no account filed
June 2008LightningLake Villa$10,000Lightning struck a home on Yew Tree Court blowing a hole through the roof, knocking siding off of the house and blew out some electrical circuits but no fire was reported.
July 2022HailLake Villa-Multiple reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received from Lake Villa.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLake Villa-Power lines were blown down on Park Avenue.
May 2018HailLake Villa-Large hail was report at several locations including 1.75 inch diameter hail at Deep Lake Road just south of Grass Lake Road and 2.25 inch diameter hail at Fairfield and Petite Lake Road.
May 2014HailLake Villa-Penny size hail fell near Route 132 and Hawthorne Drive.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Villa-Tree limbs were blocking the road near the intersection of Fairfield Road and Hawthorne Drive.
May 2006FloodLake Villa-Four to six inches of water on IL 132, just east of IL 83.
October 2006Heavy RainLake Villa-Storm total rainfall of 4.00 inches was measured.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Villa-Scattered power outages were reported countywide, which also resulted in some school closures. A tree fell on a vehicle in the area of Route 83 and Route 137. No injuries were reported.
April 2004HailLake Villa-no account filed
April 2002HailLake Villa-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Villa-no account filed

Every storm 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
West Miltmore1.6 miles20
Venetian Village1.7 miles20
Loon Lake2.2 miles20
Monaville2.3 miles20
Lindenhurst2.6 miles20
Rollins2.7 miles20
Round Lake Heights3.0 miles20
Fox Lake Hills3.1 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 VillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1989579The 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 411741. 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.

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.