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River Edge Estates, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Plainfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60544. The Survey maps it on the Normantown quadrangle.

River Edge Estates within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

1,852 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 Plainfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plainfield Township - 1,852 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of River Edge Estates in 2020, burning under an acre 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
Smoking1

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
3 August 2020Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0001661

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of River Edge Estates: 6 past producers, 3 plants, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Patterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plainfield Plant & MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Avery No. 3 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boughton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Dupage River Quarry E.E. HaulingStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Illinois Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Graver Country Estates0.9 miles22
Quail Run0.9 miles22
Reserve of Plainfield1.1 miles22
Ponds of Plainfield1.2 miles22
Walker1.2 miles23
Cambridge Place1.3 miles22
Golden Meadow Estates1.6 miles22
Kensington Club1.7 miles22

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 Q122554894The 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 2356042. 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.