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Coventry Heights, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in New Lenox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60451. The Survey maps it on the Mokena quadrangle.

Coventry Heights within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

922 words on this township

History of Will County Illinois, published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on New Lenox Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on New Lenox Township - 922 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Coventry Heights: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Swan, Medin & Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Western Stone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Will Co. Hwy. Dept.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Will 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
Thunder Ridge0.4 miles23
Chesnut Pointe0.4 miles23
Spring View West0.5 miles23
Edgecreek Estates0.7 miles23
Pine Needle0.8 miles23
Gougars1.0 miles23
Cherry Hill1.3 miles23
Blackhawk Estates1.7 miles23

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 Q122567778The 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 2355767. 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.