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Sunrise Ridge, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Greenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60097. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

Sunrise Ridge within McHenry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

14,976 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 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Greenwood Township covers name of township, location, topography, organization, officers, first settlers.

Read the chapter on Greenwood Township - 14,976 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Ridge between 2013 and 2018, burning about 18 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-345
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-176
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-129
5 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-128
22 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-0364
21 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-454

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunrise Ridge: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Copper DepositCopperPast Producer
West 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
Wonder Lake1.1 miles17
Wonder Center1.4 miles17
Greenwood1.5 miles17
Barnard Mill (historical)2.6 miles17
Ringwood3.8 miles17
McCullom Lake4.0 miles17
Bull Valley4.1 miles17
McHenry6.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 424528. 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.