Northbrook, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Quincy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62305. The Survey maps it on the Quincy West quadrangle.

Northbrook within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1925 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1945 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Quincy West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Quincy West quadrangle1:24000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Quincy township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Past and Present of the City of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, published 1905 - Quincy Township

Unwersity Of Illinois

It wa.s a tragic loss to the family aud a source of sorrow to the entire community when Charles W. Seymour, the only son of Henry M. Seymour, was accidentallj' killed, at the age of sixteen, while playing ball on the High School grounds at Payson. His young life gave promise of a career of great usefulness, and his father, recognizing that fact and endeavoring to give some memorial to his son, so prematurely taken away, has erected and donated to the village of Payson the present High School building, known as the Charles \V.

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Fires near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Northbrook between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177555-06438-06082018-1519
13 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	251165-06438-10132020-1125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Northbrook: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Campbell Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jm Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry-2 Calcium Carbonate Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quincy City Public Wks & Bridge Dpt	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quincy Mineral Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quincy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Northridge	1.3 miles	18
North Quincy	1.4 miles	18
Country Meadows	1.7 miles	19
Cheshire Hills	2.0 miles	19
Woodlawn Court	2.0 miles	19
Lincoln Hills	2.2 miles	19
Glendale	2.2 miles	19
Quincy	2.4 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1785313. 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.