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Lilymoor, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1998. It stands in McHenry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60051. The Survey maps it on the Wauconda quadrangle.

Lilymoor within McHenry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

24 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Lilymoor between 2008 and 2018, burning about 234 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-2800
9 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01639
9 July 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01644
7 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01622
4 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01582
16 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-001903
16 July 2012Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01725
16 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01606

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lilymoor: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. 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
Big Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frams Material Co. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Valley East Gate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Island Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pistakee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Possum Run Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Raven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reiland Pit, DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rocky Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McHenry 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
Lakemoor0.8 miles23
Eastwood Manor1.8 miles23
Emerald Park2.1 miles17
Riverstream2.4 miles17
Ferndale2.5 miles23
McHenry Shores2.5 miles17
Colby Point2.8 miles23
McHenry2.8 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122559075The 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 412094. 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.