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Sunset Villa, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Campton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60119. It stands on Route 38 Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elburn quadrangle.

Sunset Villa within Kane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

1,023 words on this township

History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Campton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Campton Township - 1,023 words.

Fires near this place

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Villa between 2013 and 2014, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-852
18 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-615
1 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-0548
28 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-536
7 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-343
7 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-345
6 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-332
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-301

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sunset Villa: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bald Mound Pit, Site #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elburn Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Highland Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane 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
Forest Hills0.6 miles13
Appaloosa West0.7 miles13
High Point0.9 miles13
Dillonfield1.1 miles13
Native Prairie1.7 miles13
Foxfield1.8 miles13
La Fox1.8 miles13
Still Meadows1.9 miles13

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 Q122564470The 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 2025904. 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.