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Long Lake, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60041. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wauconda quadrangle. 3,663 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Long Lake within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Long Lake grew from 3,515 to 3,663 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
20103,515
20203,663+148 (+4%)

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.

In the county-history sources

3,280 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Grant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This town is watered by Fish Lake, Wooster Lake, Sullivan's Lake, Mud Lake, Duck Lake, Long Lake, part of the Pistakee Lakes and some two or three smaller ponds, not named ; also by Squaw Creek, which passes through the northern portion.

Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Grant Township.

Fires near this place

41 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake between 2008 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning14
Fireworks3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
30 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARTIN
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
21 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-1966
16 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-001903

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Long Lake: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Pistakee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Volo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLong Lake-Route 134 was closed between Wilson Road and Cambridge Parkway due to a fallen tree.

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
Wilson0.7 miles23
Ingleside1.0 miles20
Round Lake Heights1.4 miles20
Round Lake Beach2.0 miles21
Monaville2.2 miles20
Round Lake2.2 miles21
Ingleside Shore2.3 miles20
Fox Lake Hills2.6 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 Long LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575907The 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 412580. 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.