Wildrose, Illinois

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Durant Houselisted 1976 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1932 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Wildrose between 2013 and 2014, burning about 97 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Crane Road Estates
• Crane Woods Estates
• Knoll Creek West
• Lake Charlotte
• Middlecreek
• Wildrose Valley

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wildrose: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 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.

Every working recorded in Kane County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2025932. 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.