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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.

Sammons Point within Kankakee County

Population over time

2 figures

Sammons 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.

YearPeople Change
2010279
2020214-65 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4632
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4382
19 July 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLIMESTONE 1
5 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOGNIS
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1924
8 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-0001240
10 March 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTRUDEU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kankakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kankakee PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kankakee 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
Otto2.1 miles15
Sugar Island2.5 miles14
Chebanse3.4 miles15
Aroma Park4.0 miles14
Kankakee6.1 miles14
West Kankakee6.2 miles15
Irwin6.9 miles15
Greenwich7.0 miles15

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 PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5399904The 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.