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Ringwood, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1992. It stands in McHenry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60072. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle. 844 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Ringwood within McHenry County

Population over time

2 figures

Ringwood grew from 836 to 844 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
2010836
2020844+8 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ringwood between 2012 and 2017, burning about 129 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5

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
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-345
4 May 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-231
13 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-197
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-176
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-129
5 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-128
13 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-198
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-192

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ringwood: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Copper DepositCopperPast Producer
Pistakee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringwood in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2011LightningRingwood$10,000Lightning struck a 40-foot oak tree which then fell onto a car, blowing out the rear window and heavily damaging the trunk and vinyl roof of the convertible. The tree also caused some damage to the roof and gutter of a garage.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindRingwood-A tree was downed along McCullom Lake Rd east of Wonder Lake.

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
McCullom Lake1.7 miles17
Wonder Center2.5 miles17
Wonder Lake2.7 miles17
Johnsburg3.0 miles20
Solon Mills3.7 miles17
Sunnyside3.8 miles20
Barnard Mill (historical)3.8 miles17
Sunrise Ridge3.8 miles17

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 RingwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2046581The 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 416686. 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.