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Hawthorn Woods is a low-density community in the Ela Township uplands, drained by small tributaries within the Des Plaines and Fox River watersheds. Flood exposure is limited to those channel-adjacent parcels, so an Elevation Certificate is relevant chiefly for that subset.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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Hawthorn Woods has roughly 9,062 residents in Ela Township (also Fremont Township), part of Lake County, seated at Waukegan. Where small tributaries and wetlands create mapped floodplain, a surveyor’s Elevation Certificate ties a building’s lowest-floor elevation to the Base Flood Elevation. That record enables accurate flood-insurance rating, supports floodplain-development permits, and can back a Letter of Map Amendment. Hawthorn Woods survey documents are recorded through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
No, flood exposure is limited to parcels near the village’s small streams and wetlands; most of the community is outside mapped flood hazard areas.
It is a FEMA form completed by a surveyor documenting a building’s floor elevations against the Base Flood Elevation for insurance and floodplain purposes.
Its measured elevation data is the technical evidence FEMA reviews when deciding whether to remove a structure from the mapped floodplain.
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