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Vermilionville, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Deer Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61348. The Survey maps it on the Starved Rock quadrangle.

Vermilionville within LaSalle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 27 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

3,690 words on this township

History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Deer Park Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Deer Park Township - 3,690 words.

Fires near this place

24 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Vermilionville between 2008 and 2019, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2019-089
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1063
25 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10118
2 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1060
6 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-00080
4 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1067
29 May 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000082
17 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2017-062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Vermilionville: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Marquette Co Cement--Lowell PlantStoneProducer
Boehm No. 1 PitClayProducer
Boehm No. 2 PitClayProducer
Lehigh Portland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marquette QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ristokrat Clay Pit No. 4ClayPast Producer
Utica Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bailey Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C. Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Lowell1.0 miles21
Bailey Falls (historical)2.9 miles21
Deer Park3.3 miles21
Ticona3.9 miles12
Oglesby4.2 miles21
Tonica4.8 miles12
Little Rock (historical)4.9 miles21
Leonore4.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 420264. 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.