Southbury, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Oswego Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60543. It stands on Waubonsie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aurora South quadrangle.

Southbury within Kendall County

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.

1925 USGS Yorkville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Aurora South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Yorkville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Aurora South quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

83 words on this township

History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Oswego Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Oswego Township - 83 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Southbury in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0000121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Southbury: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fox Ridge Stone	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fox Valley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hafrenrichter Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kendall 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Windcrest	0.9 miles	14
Winding Waters Of Mill Race Creek	1.1 miles	14
Ashcroft Place	1.1 miles	14
Oswego	1.1 miles	14
Cedar Glen	1.2 miles	14
Ashcroft	1.2 miles	14
Brookside Manor	1.2 miles	14
Lakeview Estates	1.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2778330. 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.