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Peoria Heights, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Richwoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61616. The Survey maps it on the Peoria East quadrangle. 5,908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Peoria Heights within Peoria County

On record in Peoria Heights

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Peoria Heights fell from 6,156 to 5,908 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
20106,156
20205,908-248 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

7,435 words on this township

The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richwoods Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richwoods Township - 7,435 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Peoria Heights between 2009 and 2018, 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 burning2

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
24 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources075-18
20 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDUNDEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Peoria Heights: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Peoria City PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joos Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jubilee Materials Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peoria Concrete Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Powley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Bay SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Peoria 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
Long Shore Park0.9 miles23
Sankoty1.0 miles23
Keller1.6 miles23
North Peoria2.1 miles21
Averyville2.2 miles21
Golden Acres3.1 miles19
El Vista3.2 miles19
Peoria3.8 miles21

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 Peoria HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q593012The 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 415537. 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.