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Lakewood Shores, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Wesley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60481. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle. 665 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Lakewood Shores within Will County

Population over time

2 figures

Lakewood Shores fell from 1,347 to 665 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
20101,347
2020665-682 (-51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood Shores between 2005 and 2009, burning about 85 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
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
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieROUTE 53 FIRE
15 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieGORMAN FIRE
5 May 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE9
6 April 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieOLD CHICAGO FARM FIR
6 April 2005Smokingunder an acreMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieSOUTH ARSENAL FIRE
27 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE7
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRACE3
18 March 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieBARN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lakewood Shores: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Charles & Son Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fatlan Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakewood Shores in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLakewood Shores-A photo showed the roof above the front porch of a house partially collapsed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLakewood Shores-Trees were reported down at multiple residences along the Kankakee River in Wilmington. Time was estimated using radar.

Every storm recorded in Will 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
Winchester Estates1.4 miles23
Resthaven1.4 miles23
Riverwood Estates1.6 miles23
Wilmington1.8 miles23
Ballou2.3 miles21
Ritchie Station2.3 miles21
Custer Park2.6 miles13
Ritchie2.8 miles21

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 Lakewood ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575966The 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 411771. 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.