Techny, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Northfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60062. The Survey maps it on the Park Ridge quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Techny within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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
1929 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Park Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Park Ridge 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 Techny (historical): 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
The Commons	0.5 miles	19
Park Place Estates of Northbrook	0.5 miles	19
Northbrook Acres	0.5 miles	19
Sycamore Lane	0.7 miles	22
Southbridge Commons	0.7 miles	19
Northbrook Manor	0.7 miles	22
Volte Court	0.7 miles	19
Heart O' Northbrook	0.7 miles	22

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.

Wikipedia article on Techny (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q259518	The 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 1781997. 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.