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Youngsdale, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Elgin Township. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle.

Youngsdale within Kane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Youngsdale between 2013 and 2014, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-852
1 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-0548
4 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-445
7 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-345
7 April 2014Arson/incendiarism50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-340
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-339
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-337
6 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-300

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Youngsdale: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Elgin City PitStonePast Producer
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fox River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hammond Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Meyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Elgin Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Van Acker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
West Bartlett Plant Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngsdale in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 hail. 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
April 2026HailYoungsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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
River Grange Lakes2.0 miles17
Five Island Park2.1 miles17
Mallard Lake North2.3 miles17
Fox River Heights2.3 miles17
Redgate Ridge2.4 miles17
Coleman2.4 miles17
Novak Park2.5 miles17
Ferson Creek Woods2.5 miles17

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 Q122564006The 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 423344. 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.