Somerset Hills, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Homer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60491. The Survey maps it on the Sag Bridge quadrangle.

Somerset Hills within Will County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1928 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Sag Bridge quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Somerset Hills: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lemont Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Unnamed Limestone 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
Derby Meadows	0.3 miles	26
Pineview Hills	0.4 miles	23
Pheasant Hollow S	0.4 miles	26
Pheasant Hollow N	0.6 miles	26
Spring Lake Woods	0.7 miles	23
Goodings Grove	0.7 miles	26
Derby Hills	0.8 miles	26
Sylvan Hills	0.9 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2355583. 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.