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Schaufel Corners, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60002. The Survey maps it on the Wadsworth quadrangle.

Schaufel Corners within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

1,057 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 Newport Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newport Township - 1,057 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Schaufel Corners between 2012 and 2019, burning about 27 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 burning3
Smoking2

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
8 July 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218402
8 May 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources923
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218249
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources865
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources390
8 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218175
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-0416
11 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-0361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Schaufel Corners: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Ponderosa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Kelley Corners1.0 miles17
Slocum Corners1.0 miles17
Dunn Corners1.0 miles17
Crawford Corners1.4 miles17
Carney Corners1.4 miles17
Fossland1.5 miles17
Rosecrans1.5 miles17
Hickory Corners2.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122571772The 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 1772967. 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.