Prairie Ponds, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60585. The Survey maps it on the Normantown quadrangle.

Prairie Ponds within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1892 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1923 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1953 USGS Normantown quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Normantown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Normantown quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Ponds: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Patterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plainfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plainfield Plant & Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Avery No. 3 Pit & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boughton Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Dupage River Quarry E.E. Hauling	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Illinois Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Plainfield Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Will 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
Shenandoah	0.3 miles	22
Walkers Grove	0.6 miles	22
Tuttle Farm	0.6 miles	22
Wheatland Plains	0.8 miles	14
Tamarack	0.8 miles	14
Harvest Glen	0.9 miles	22
Prairie Knoll	1.2 miles	22
Normantown	1.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2356032. 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.