Jeffery Manor, 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 lies near Stony Island Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Lake Calumet quadrangle.
On record in Jeffery Manor
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.
Trumbull Parklisted 1995 · 0.7 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 townshipPolitics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Chicago City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jeffery Manor: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | ||
| Yard R Clay Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffery Manor in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffery Manor | - | Trees and tree limbs were blown down in Marionette Manor. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merrionette Manor | 0.4 miles | 26 | |
| Trumbull Park Terrace | 0.6 miles | 26 | |
| Stony Island | 0.6 miles | 26 | |
| South Chicago Heights | 0.9 miles | 26 | |
| Trumbull Park Homes | 0.9 miles | 26 | |
| Stony Island Heights | 1.0 miles | 26 | |
| Irondale | 1.0 miles | 26 | |
| Calumet Heights | 1.1 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 Q122595995 | 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 1737739. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.












