Southmoor, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Palos Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60464. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle.

Southmoor within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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 Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Southmoor: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Worth 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
Palos Park	1.0 miles	27
Orland Park	2.0 miles	27
Palos Heights	2.1 miles	27
Goeselville	3.1 miles	24
Worth	3.1 miles	27
Palos Hills	3.1 miles	27
Crestwood	4.1 miles	27
Chicago Ridge	4.3 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 418856. 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.