Winthrop Harbor Station, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60096. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1906 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Zion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Zion quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,620 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 Benton Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Benton Township - 1,620 words.
Fires near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Winthrop Harbor Station between 2008 and 2019, burning about 92 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 | 10 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | NORTH UNIT |
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1383 |
| 15 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1198 |
| 8 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 923 |
| 24 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-0001610 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 865 |
| 8 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 390 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 462 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Winthrop Harbor Station: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zion City Pit | Stone | Past 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winthrop Harbor | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Logan | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Zion | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Eddy | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Russell | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Beach Park | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Beach Station | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Bancroft Corners | 4.1 miles | 16 |
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 Q122546606 | 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 421351. 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.







