Skokie Manor, Illinois
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Shields Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60045. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle.
On record in Skokie Manor
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 9 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Frank Hibbard Estate House-Deerpath Hill Estateslisted 2006 · 0.4 miles away
House at 380 Chiltern Drive-Deerpath Hill Estateslisted 2006 · 0.5 miles away
Deerpath Hill Estates Historic Districtlisted 2006 · 0.6 miles away
Noble Judah Estatelisted 1990 · 0.7 miles away
Edward H. Bennett House and Studiolisted 1995 · 0.8 miles away
Vine-Oakwood-Green Bay Road Historic Districtlisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
Deerpath Innlisted 1992 · 1.0 miles away
Clifford Milton Leonard Farmlisted 2000 · 1.0 miles away
House at 965 Castlegate Court-Deerpath Hill Estateslisted 2006 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,524 words on this townshipThe 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 Shields Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Shields Township - 4,524 words.
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Skokie Manor between 2017 and 2020, burning about 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-971 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-1413 |
| 4 December 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17-3964 |
| 15 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-2498 |
| 4 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-2239 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerpath | 0.3 miles | 22 | |
| Kennedy | 0.7 miles | 22 | |
| Skokie Junction | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Melody | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Lake Forest | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| West Lake Forest | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Everett | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Creamery Corners | 2.7 miles | 19 |
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 Q122549771 | 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 418583. 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.









