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Plum Grove Village, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Palatine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60008. The Survey maps it on the Palatine quadrangle.

Plum Grove Village within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

In the county-history sources

10,882 words on this township

History of Cook County, Illinois. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Palatine Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Palatine Township - 10,882 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Plum Grove Village: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Meachum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hoffman Estates City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Palatine City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rolling Meadows Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Winthrop Village0.3 miles22
Fairfax Village0.9 miles22
Creekside1.0 miles22
Rolling Meadows1.5 miles22
Palatine1.6 miles22
Williamsburg2.2 miles22
Heatherlea2.9 miles21
Lake Park Estates3.0 miles21

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 Q122564463The 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 1962225. 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.