Mount Forest, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lyons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60480. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Forest within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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 Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Palos Park 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 Mount Forest (historical) 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mount Forest (historical): 6 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Worth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Summit Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Superior Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wester Springs City Eng.-Own Crews	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
Willow Springs	0.2 miles	27
Justice	1.0 miles	27
Hodgkins	1.9 miles	24
Gary	2.0 miles	24
Hickory Hills	2.0 miles	27
Bridgeview	2.9 miles	24
Countryside	3.0 miles	23
Indian Head Park	3.1 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737232. 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.