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Ski Hill, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Algonquin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60021. It stands on Cary Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barrington quadrangle.

Ski Hill within McHenry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

16,941 words on this township

History of McHenry County, Illinois : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, Also a Condensed History of Illinois .., published 1885; History of McHenry County, Illinois, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Algonquin Township covers location, topography, lakes and streams, railroads, name, settlement.

Read the chapter on Algonquin Township - 16,941 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ski Hill in 2009, burning about 3 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/undetermined1

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
17 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ski Hill: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
Algonquin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algonquin Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carpentersville Pit #25Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cary Plant & Portable MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dundee Pit Meyer MaterialSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Island Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in McHenry 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
Fox River Grove0.4 miles19
Cary1.8 miles19
Trout Valley2.5 miles19
Turner Camp2.5 miles19
Port Barrington2.8 miles19
Rawson Bridge2.8 miles19
Haegers Bend3.0 miles19
Silver Lake3.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 418567. 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.