Westmoreland, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Rockford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61102. The Survey maps it on the Winnebago quadrangle.

Westmoreland within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1918 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1938 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Winnebago quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Winnebago quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Rockford township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877 - Rockford Township

Winnebago Counit Dieectort

ill Putney, Vt., in 1800 ; he emigrated to Chicago in 1832, where he practiced his profession until 1838, when lie came to Rocliford to I'eside; he married Catherine Dunn, in St. Thomas, Canada, in 1822; she died in 1874; Dr. Goodhue was killed from falling into a well, while attending one of his patients, in 1847.

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In the county-history sources

166,475 words on this township

History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Llinois, from the First Settlement in 1834 to the Civil War, published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Rockford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

THE tide of emigration, which may be said to have begun in 1835, continued for several years. When the Rockford Society of Early Settlers was organized, January 10, 1870, its constitution provided that male residents of the county who settled therein previous to 1840 were eligible to membership. In this and the preceding chapter is given a partial list of those who came previous to and including 1836. In succeeding chapters will be published an incomplete roster of settlers of 1837-39, inclusive. According to the Old Settlers' standard of eligibility to membership, these names belong to the historic roll of honor.

Passage source: History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Llinois, from the First Settlement in 1834 to the Civil War, published 1900.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Rockford Township.

Fires near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Westmoreland between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0000206
7 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000163
6 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000158
8 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0000594
1 January 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	15-0000001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Westmoreland: 19 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hoogie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sahlstrom Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
South Main Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brudi Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carrico Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cunningham Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Johns Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Levings Quarry Ga Portable	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Marks Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morris Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coreys Bluff	3.5 miles	17
Rockford	3.6 miles	20
Hickory Creek	3.7 miles	14
Brewster Heights	4.1 miles	14
Winnebago	4.2 miles	18
Nottingham Manor	4.3 miles	20
Indian Village	4.3 miles	17
River Forest	4.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423971. 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.