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Woodcrest, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Rockford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61109. It stands on Kishwaukee River. The Survey maps it on the Kishwaukee quadrangle.

Woodcrest within Winnebago County

On record in Woodcrest

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

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

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; History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Llinois, from the First Settlement in 1834 to the Civil War, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rockford Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rockford Township - 166,475 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Woodcrest in 2018, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning1

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
11 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2018-176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Woodcrest: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport Pit Dredge & Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoogie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sahlstrom Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Main Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winquist Pit Rein, Schultz & DahlSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lumpkin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill Package 1978Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
R. Mcgee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rockford Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

6 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodcrest in 6 storm reports in 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Flash FloodWoodcrest$2,000,000Thunderstorms producing torrential rainfall moved across southern Winnebago County and Rockford during the late evening of July 13th into the early morning of July 14th producing significant flash flooding and numerous water rescues, though no injuries were reported.||Water rescues were reported near Eastmoreland Avenue and Broadway; Near Auburn Street and Huffman Boulevard; Broadway at Woodruff Avenue; Near Charles Street and 22nd Street; Green Dale Drive and Ashbrook Drive; Spring Creek Road and North 2nd Street; Riverside Boulevard and Latham Street; Near Chelsea Avenue and Arden Court; Near State Street and Trainer Road; At Don Carter Lanes on Street State; Auburn Street and Central Avenue; In the 3400 block of Garfield Drive; Sandy Hollow Road and Alpine Road and several water rescues were reported on the 600 block of St. Louis Avenue. Multiple vehicles were stuck in flood waters along Charles Street including an ambulance. A car was submerged in a parking lot near Charles Street.||Numerous streets were flooded and impassible. Kishwaukee Street was flooded and impassable at 23rd Avenue. A photo showed flowing water over Charles Street at Perryville Road; Video showed several inches of water on State Street just west of Rockford Avenue and a drainage ditch was overflowing near Harrison Avenue and Alpine Road.||Houses were flooded near Javelin Drive and Woodridge Drive. Pavement damage was reported to a nearby parking lot. Water was reported entering a few structures near downtown Rockford including along Benton and State Streets. Numerous homes were surrounded by flood waters along Northwest Drainage Ditch in northwest Rockford where water rescues were done by boat. Flood waters were up to the doorway of houses in the 1000 block of 14th Street where residents were being evacuated. Multiple houses were surrounded by water due to flooding of Keith Creek between 11th Street and 18th Street and a house was flooded near Whitman Street and Rockton Avenue. Several hundred basements were flooded.||Some of the highest storm total rainfall amounts included 6.30 inches three miles west northwest of Rockford; 6.24 inches two miles east northeast of Rockford; 5.69 inches three miles south southeast of Loves Park; 5.66 inches two miles northwest of Cherry Valley; 4.87 inches two miles west northwest of Loves Park and Rockford Airport measured 2.40 inches. Rainfall rates during the heaviest thunderstorms were between 2 to 4 inches per hour. A trained spotter reported 4 inches of rain in one hour in Loves Park between 2130 CST and 2230 CST.
July 2024FloodWoodcrest-After torrential rainfall and flash flooding during the late evening of July 13th and early morning of July 14th, flooding continued across Rockford and surrounding areas through the morning of July 14th.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodcrest-Route 2 was closed due to numerous large tree limbs blown down into the roadway.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodcrest-Tree damage was reported along S Bend Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodcrest-Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped with many other tree limbs blown down in an area just north of the Rock River. At least one house on Route 2, just east of Antler Trail was damaged when a tree fell on it. Crops were also blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodcrest-Trees and tree limbs were blown down blocking Prairie Road, just north of Fitzgerald Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Motor Heights0.6 miles14
Grant View Heights0.7 miles14
Kishwaukee1.2 miles14
Hickory Creek2.8 miles14
Brewster Heights2.9 miles14
Indian Village3.8 miles17
Coreys Bluff3.9 miles17
Winnebago Court3.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1829414. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.