Ritchie Station, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Wesley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60481. The Survey maps it on the Symerton quadrangle.

Ritchie Station within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1892 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1918 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1953 USGS Symerton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Symerton quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Symerton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ritchie Station between 2005 and 2009, burning about 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
15 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie	GORMAN FIRE
6 April 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie	OLD CHICAGO FARM FIR
18 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BRACE3
18 March 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie	BARN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ritchie Station: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Charles & Son Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wesley Township Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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
Ritchie	0.5 miles	21
Resthaven	1.2 miles	23
Custer Park	1.2 miles	13
Ballou	1.5 miles	21
Lakewood Shores	2.3 miles	23
Winchester Estates	3.3 miles	23
Riverwood Estates	3.8 miles	23
Wilmington	3.8 miles	23

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.

Wikidata item Q122568694

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 416697. 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.