Glenn, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stickney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60638. It stands on Portage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle.

Glenn within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Glenn in 2005, burning about 1 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	2

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
7 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glenn: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
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

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
Forest View	0.9 miles	24
Stickney	1.2 miles	24
Archer Limits	1.5 miles	26
Clearing	1.7 miles	24
LeClaire Courts	1.9 miles	26
Sleepy Hollow	2.0 miles	26
Summit	2.1 miles	24
Lavergne	2.2 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422743. 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.