Thornton Junction, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60473. The Survey maps it on the Calumet City quadrangle.

Thornton Junction within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1929 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
1968 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000

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 Thornton Junction: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Thorton Plant Lime	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Yard R Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Brownell Improvement Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
City of Calumet - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public Works	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Thorton Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
South Holland	0.8 miles	27
Thornton	1.5 miles	27
Greenwood	2.0 miles	27
Phoenix	2.1 miles	25
East Hazel Crest	2.3 miles	25
Berger	2.5 miles	27
Harvey	2.5 miles	25
Globe	2.6 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 419689. 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.