Raynor Park, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Joliet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60435. The Survey maps it on the Joliet quadrangle.

Raynor Park within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1892 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1923 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

16,216 words on this township

The History of Will County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Joliet Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Joliet Township - 16,216 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Raynor Park: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 3 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
Lockport Pit/Yard 15	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
U S Refactories Div. Mill	Magnesite	Producer
(Facility) Mobil Oil Joilet Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Texaco Lockport Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Avery No. 2 Pit & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Gross & Mc Cowan Lumber Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Inland Crushed Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Joliet Quarry & Mill Yard 340	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lincoln Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Markgraf Stone Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raynor Park in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Lightning	Raynor Park	$105,000	Lightning struck a house on the 2100 block of Dartmoor Drive causing a fire. Residents were not home at the time but a pet dog was killed in the fire. The house was significantly damaged and was uninhabitable.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	$50,000	A large tree top was snapped off. Numerous utility poles blown down causing damage to houses.
October 2006	Flash Flood	Raynor Park	$10,000	Street flooding reported with water in yards up to houses. Street flooding 3 feet deep in spots.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	-	Widespread tree damage occurred in Crest Hill with the east side of town hit the hardest. Numerous large tree limbs were blown down along with some trees, blocking several roads. Powerlines were also blown down. A roof of an apartment building on Arbor Lane was partially blown off, displacing 10 families who lived there.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Raynor Park	-	Storm total rainfall of 2.80 inches was measured.
June 2019	Flood	Raynor Park	-	Flooding was reported on Theodore Street where it crosses a small creek.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	-	Tree limbs were blown down and a stop sign was bent in half near Route 30 and Ingalls Avenue.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	-	A 12 inch diameter tree was split at its base near Ingalls Avenue and Larkin Avenue. Numerous tree limbs up to six inches in diameter were blown down along Larkin Avenue between McDonough Street and Black Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	-	Considerable tree damage was reported near Midhurst Lane and Edgerton Drive with one twelve inch diameter tree snapped off.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Raynor Park	-	Extensive tree damage was reported near Larkin Avenue and Route 30.

Every storm recorded in Will 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
Lidice	0.3 miles	23
Crest Hill	0.3 miles	23
Rockdale Junction	1.1 miles	23
Larkins Pointe	1.8 miles	23
Fairmont	1.9 miles	23
Joliet	1.9 miles	23
Forest Park	2.0 miles	23
East Joliet	2.5 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 416430. 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.

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.