Fox Chase Estates, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lemont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60439. The Survey maps it on the Sag Bridge quadrangle.

Fox Chase Estates within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1928 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fox Chase Estates: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) Union 76 Chicago Refinery	Sulfur	Plant
Lemont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barge Slip Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lemont Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moorefield Estates	0.3 miles	26
Fox Hills	0.5 miles	26
Sylvan Woods	1.1 miles	26
Creekwood	1.5 miles	26
Maple Leaf Estates	1.7 miles	26
Equestrian Estates	2.3 miles	26
Hastings	2.8 miles	26
Equestrian Woods	2.8 miles	26

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 Q122571529

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 1826886. 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.