Linview, Illinois

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.

• 1917 USGS Kings quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Kings quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Camp Grant quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rockford South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Rockford South quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Linview between 2017 and 2019, burning about 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Atwood Estates
• Atwood Park Estates
• Blackcrest
• Burr Oak Acres
• Canyon Ridge
• Cheyenne Heights

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Linview: 18 past producers, 5 producers, 2 plants. 7 still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1829345. 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.