Royal Lake Resort, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62231. It lies near Pelican Pouch. The Survey maps it on the Beckemeyer quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Royal Lake Resort within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1910 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Beckemeyer quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Royal Lake Resort between 2001 and 2014, burning about 10 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	KLEIBOEKER
10 March 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Royal Lake Resort: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Schafer Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clinton Cty Hwy Dept	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Huelsman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Posey	2.9 miles	10
Carlyle	3.3 miles	10
Beckemeyer	3.6 miles	10
Bartelso	4.4 miles	10
Huey	6.0 miles	10
Snearlyville	6.2 miles	10
Hoffman	7.1 miles	10
Frogtown	7.1 miles	10

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 Q7374374

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 1810453. 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.