Springwood South, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60436. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Springwood South within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1892 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1923 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Springwood South between 2008 and 2019, burning about 32 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/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
15 August 2008	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie	MILLSDALE FIRE
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-0639
20 March 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie	DRUMMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Springwood South: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite. 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
U S Refactories Div. Mill	Magnesite	Producer
Vicks Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Joliet Phos-Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant
Joliet Phosphoric Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer
Inland Crushed Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Joliet Quarry & Mill Yard 340	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Will 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
Springwood	0.9 miles	23
Oakwood Estates	0.9 miles	23
Fairway Estates	0.9 miles	23
Old Kent	1.3 miles	23
Northfield	1.9 miles	23
Idylside	2.1 miles	23
Deer Run Estates	2.1 miles	23
Rock Run Park	2.1 miles	23

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 Q122598039

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 2355758. 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.