Round Lake Heights, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Avon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60073. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle. 2,622 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresRound Lake Heights fell from 2,676 to 2,622 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,676 | |
| 2020 | 2,622 | -54 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,165 words on this townshipThe 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 Avon Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Avon Township - 2,165 words.
Fires near this place
36 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Round Lake Heights between 2008 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17-2800 |
| 30 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARTIN |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01639 |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01644 |
| 7 July 2012 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01622 |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01582 |
| 21 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-1966 |
| 16 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-001903 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Round Lake Heights: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Hollow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Volo Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Lake Heights in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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 2015 | Hail | Round Lake Heights | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Lake Beach | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Long Lake | 1.4 miles | 23 | |
| Monaville | 1.4 miles | 20 | |
| Ingleside | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Round Lake | 1.9 miles | 21 | |
| Wilson | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Round Lake Park | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Rollins | 2.2 miles | 20 |
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 Round Lake Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2373188 | 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 416996. 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.









