North Shore, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Grafton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60014. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Lake quadrangle.

North Shore within McHenry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1925 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1940 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:24000

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 North Shore: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Crystal Lake Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
D & Z Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Huntley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Reed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodstock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in McHenry 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
Crystal Vista	0.5 miles	19
Lakewood	0.8 miles	19
Crystal Gardens	1.1 miles	18
Ridgefield	2.0 miles	17
Crystal Lake	2.4 miles	19
Crystal Manor	3.9 miles	19
Holcombville Corners	4.2 miles	17
Terra Cotta	4.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 414670. 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.