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Spangler Farms, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Plainfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60544. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Spangler Farms within Will County

On record in Spangler Farms

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

1,852 words on this township

The History of Will County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Plainfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plainfield Township - 1,852 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spangler Farms: 3 past producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plainfield Plant & MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plainfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vintage Harvest0.4 miles23
Park Place0.6 miles23
Plainfield0.8 miles23
Wallin Woods0.8 miles23
Arbor Settlement1.1 miles23
Walker1.4 miles23
Heron View Estates1.5 miles23
Liberty Grove1.5 miles23

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 Q122542019The 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 2355610. 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.