BlockBarrington Center, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Barrington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60010. The Survey maps it on the Streamwood quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1923 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1935 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Barrington quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Streamwood quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Streamwood quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
44,928 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Barrington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Barrington Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Barrington Center: 7 producers, 3 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beverly Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Carpentersville Pit #25 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee North Road Mat'Ls Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Road Mat'Ls Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elgin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mc Graw Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Steffen Brothers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Barrington Hills | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| South Barrington | 4.1 miles | 22 | |
| Barrington | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Inverness | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Howe Terrace | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Deer Lake | 5.7 miles | 21 | |
| Streamwood | 5.9 miles | 20 |
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 Q122598826 | 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 422438. 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.
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.