BlockGreen Bay, Illinois
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60617. It stands on Calumet River. The Survey maps it on the Lake Calumet quadrangle.
On record in Green Bay
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Schlitz Brewery-Tied Houselisted 2022 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 26 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.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Calumet Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Calumet Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Index To Content
Chapter I. - First Settler of Chicago, 5. Various Appellations of Chicago. .Garies' River, 6. The Main River Bed Changed. .Chicago in Virginia. .Treaty of Greenville. . Original Site of Chicago. .Illinois in Indiana Territory. .Fort Dearborn Established. .First Commandants of the Fort. .Massacre of 1S12, 7. Captain John and Lieutenant Wm.
In the county-history sources
902,150 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Chicago City. 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 Chicago City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Bay: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marblehead South Chicago Lime Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Stony Island Quarries | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calumet | 0.3 miles | 26 | |
| South Chicago Heights | 0.9 miles | 26 | |
| Cheltenham | 1.0 miles | 26 | |
| The Bush | 1.1 miles | 26 | |
| South Chicago | 1.1 miles | 26 | |
| Windsor Park | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Merrionette Manor | 1.3 miles | 26 | |
| Taylors Addition to South Chicago | 1.5 miles | 26 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737519. 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.