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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.

Round Lake Heights within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Round 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,676
20202,622-54 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

2,165 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 Avon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Avon Township - 2,165 words.

Fires near this place

36 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-2800
30 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARTIN
9 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01639
9 July 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01644
7 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01622
4 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-01582
21 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-1966
16 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources16-001903

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Volo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015HailRound Lake Heights-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
Round Lake Beach0.9 miles21
Long Lake1.4 miles23
Monaville1.4 miles20
Ingleside1.9 miles20
Round Lake1.9 miles21
Wilson2.0 miles23
Round Lake Park2.2 miles21
Rollins2.2 miles20

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2373188The 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.