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North Harvey, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60426. It lies near Kickapoo Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle.

North Harvey within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of North Harvey: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Calumet - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Phoenix1.0 miles25
Harvey1.2 miles25
West Harvey1.2 miles25
Dixmoor1.3 miles25
Dolton1.8 miles26
South Holland2.3 miles27
Berger2.4 miles27
Posen2.4 miles25

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 Q122540023The 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 1802401. 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.