McCullom Lake, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1992. It stands in McHenry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60050. The Survey maps it on the McHenry quadrangle. 988 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
On record in McCullom Lake
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Colby-Petersen Farmlisted 2020 · 0.8 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresMcCullom Lake fell from 1,049 to 988 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,049 | |
| 2020 | 988 | -61 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Mc Henry quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS McHenry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS McHenry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS McHenry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS McHenry quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of McCullom Lake between 2012 and 2014, burning about 144 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-129 |
| 5 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-128 |
| 3 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 49 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DEFIANCW |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-198 |
| 1 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12_4168 |
| 21 October 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-454 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McCullom Lake: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Copper Deposit | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Big Hollow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Green Valley East Gate Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pistakee Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Possum Run Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| West Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCullom Lake in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Mccullom Lake | - | Private weather station KILMCHEN3 recorded a 3 hour rainfall amount of 5.78. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Mccullom Lake | - | A brief tornado with peak winds of 90 mph touched down at the Petersen Farm, just east of McCullom Lake Road where it damaged a barn and a ground marker. The tornado moved east and damaged siding and porches on a few townhouses on Evergreen Circle. A portion of a roof was removed from a townhouse on Evergreen Circle. The tornado lifted just before it reached the Home Depot store on Richmond Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mccullom Lake | - | A tree limb 8 to 10 inches in diameter was blown onto power lines near Ojibwa Lane and Curran Road. A 17 inch diameter tree limb was snapped off in the same neighborhood. Additional small twigs and limbs were blown down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Mccullom Lake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ringwood | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| McHenry | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Riverstream | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Johnsburg | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Wonder Center | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Wonder Lake | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Eastwood Manor | 3.1 miles | 23 | |
| Sunnyside | 3.8 miles | 20 |
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 McCullom Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672330 | The 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 413241. 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.









