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Riverwoods, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60015. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle. 3,790 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Riverwoods within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverwoods grew from 3,660 to 3,790 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
20103,660
20203,790+130 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

1,027 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Vernon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Vernon Township - 1,027 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Riverwoods between 2012 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2012Fireworks5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-2395-27
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-2239

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Riverwoods: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deerfield PitStonePast Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Aptakisic Sand Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cow Hey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverwoods in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
April 2023HailRiverwoods-Photos showed ping pong ball size hail.
April 2023HailRiverwoods-no account filed
July 2003LightningRiverwoods-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Lincolnshire1.7 miles23
Bannockburn2.4 miles22
Horatio Gardens2.4 miles23
Deerfield2.8 miles22
Aptakisic2.9 miles23
Half Day3.0 miles23
Del Mar Woods3.2 miles22
Highmoor3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on RiverwoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2271100The 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 416736. 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.