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Park City, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Waukegan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60085. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle. 7,885 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Park City within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Park City grew from 7,570 to 7,885 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
20107,570
20207,885+315 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

14,048 words on this township

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.

The chapter on Waukegan Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Waukegan Township - 14,048 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Park City between 2003 and 2018, burning about 452 acres in total. None 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9118
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources8118
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEC-79
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-2269
10 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12_2571
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources60118
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1522
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesZION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Park City: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. 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
Abbotts North Chicago Iodine PlantIodinePlant
Fansteel #1 Tantalum PlantTantalum, Niobium (Columbium), TungstenProducer
Economy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gurnee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gurnee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake County Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wadsworth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2026FloodPark City-A few inches of standing water on the road were reported on the west side of Waukegan.
July 2022HailPark City-A photo shared on social media showed quarter size hail in Park City.
May 2014Flash FloodPark City-Route 41 was closed near Route 120 due to flooding.

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
Spaulding Corners1.5 miles19
Gurnee1.8 miles19
Chittenden2.2 miles17
Waukegan2.3 miles18
Wells Corners2.7 miles19
North Chicago2.8 miles18
Five Points3.0 miles18
Sherman Corners3.2 miles19

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 Park CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575602The 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 415381. 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.