Ridgeland, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Northfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60062. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle.

Ridgeland within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1928 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000

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 Ridgeland: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Deerfield Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Aptakisic Sand Corp.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cow Hey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Woodoaks Court	0.1 miles	23
Wood Oaks Glen	0.2 miles	23
Edgewood Grove	0.3 miles	23
Mission Hills Estates	0.3 miles	22
Huntington	0.4 miles	22
C H Taylor's Sanwaldrun Estates	0.5 miles	23
Regency Place	0.5 miles	23
Garden Court	0.6 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2097449. 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.