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Panorama Valley, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Cherry Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61109. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Valley quadrangle.

Panorama Valley within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

16,109 words on this township

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.

The chapter on Cherry Valley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cherry Valley Township - 16,109 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Panorama Valley between 2017 and 2019, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2019201
3 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1700059/1700061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Panorama Valley: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cherry Valley Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gantzer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Irene Quarry & Mill #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mulford Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Rockford MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sahlstrom QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sand Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schlichting Excavating QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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
Coventry Hills East0.3 miles15
Coventry Hills0.5 miles17
Perryville1.2 miles15
Valley View Farm1.2 miles15
Mulford Highlands1.2 miles17
Coventry Creek1.4 miles15
Hickory View Estates1.7 miles17
Valley View1.7 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122565482The 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 1829376. 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.