BlockSugar Island, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Otto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60922. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kankakee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1922 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Island between 2013 and 2018, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-4382 |
| 16 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-00035 |
| 27 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-00027 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Island in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2024 | Flood | Sugar Island | - | Minor flooding of a roadway and full ditches were reported near 6000 South Road and 4000 East Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sammons Point | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Chebanse | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Otto | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Aroma Park | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Anne | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wichert | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Collins (historical) | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kankakee | 8.1 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Sugar Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7634844 | 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 423218. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.