Sammons Point, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Otto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60922. It stands on Minnie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kankakee quadrangle. 214 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresSammons Point fell from 279 to 214 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 | 279 | |
| 2020 | 214 | -65 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1922 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sammons Point between 2009 and 2019, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-4632 |
| 16 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-4382 |
| 19 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LIMESTONE 1 |
| 5 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | COGNIS |
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-1924 |
| 8 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-0001240 |
| 10 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | TRUDEU |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sammons Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kankakee Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otto | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sugar Island | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Chebanse | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Aroma Park | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Kankakee | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| West Kankakee | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Irwin | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Greenwich | 7.0 miles | 15 |
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 Sammons Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5399904 | 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 2109626. 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.






