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.
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.
Grand View Drivelisted 1996 · 0.6 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresPeoria 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,156 | |
| 2020 | 5,908 | -248 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
7,435 words on this townshipThe 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 2009Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 075-18 |
| 20 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DUNDEE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peoria City Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Joos Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jubilee Materials Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Peoria Concrete Construction Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Powley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spring Bay Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stevers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Shore Park | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Sankoty | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Keller | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| North Peoria | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| Averyville | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Golden Acres | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| El Vista | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Peoria | 3.8 miles | 21 |
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 Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q593012 | The 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.










