BlockTower Lake, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cuba Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60010. It lies near Duck Island. The Survey maps it on the Barrington quadrangle. 1,226 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresTower Lake fell from 1,283 to 1,226 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,283 | |
| 2020 | 1,226 | -57 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1923 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1935 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,019 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Cuba Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Cuba Township - 2,019 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tower Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filter Materials Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Barrington | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| North Barrington | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Wauconda | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Lake Corner | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Williams Park | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Valentine Manor | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Thornfield | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Lake Zurich Manor | 2.8 miles | 21 |
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 Tower Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q579030 | 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 419798. 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.
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.