Melody, Illinois

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• J. Ogden Armour Houselisted 1982 · 0.7 miles away
• Deerpath Hill Estates Historic Districtlisted 2006 · 0.7 miles away
• Clifford Milton Leonard Farmlisted 2000 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1928 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, 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 7 fires within 5 miles of Melody between 2017 and 2020, burning about 42 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:

• Creamery Corners
• Skokie Junction
• Mettawa
• Deerpath
• Everett
• Five Points

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Melody: 1 producer, 1 past 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.

Every working recorded in Lake County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422969. 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.