East Grossdale, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Riverside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60513. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle.
On record in East Grossdale
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 6 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Avery Coonley HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970 · 0.5 miles away
Riverside Water TowerNational Historic Landmark · listed 1969 · 0.8 miles away
F.F. Tomek HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1999 · 1.0 miles away
Grossdale Stationlisted 1982 · 0.5 miles away
Hofmann Towerlisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away
Arcade Buildinglisted 2016 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of East Grossdale in 2005, burning under an 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of East Grossdale: 9 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bellwood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Federal Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| River Forest City Eng - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Summit Quarry Consumers Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Superior Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 0.9 miles | 24 | |
| Brookfield | 0.9 miles | 24 | |
| Lyons | 1.3 miles | 24 | |
| North Riverside | 1.3 miles | 24 | |
| La Grange Park | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| Hines | 1.9 miles | 24 | |
| McCook | 2.0 miles | 24 | |
| La Grange | 2.3 miles | 24 |
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 Q122590464 | 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 1826208. 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.











