University Park, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60428. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle.

University Park within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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 Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of University Park in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of University Park: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Brownell Improvement Co Quarry	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
Markham	0.5 miles	25
South Harvey	1.4 miles	25
Hazel Crest	1.5 miles	25
Harvey	2.4 miles	25
East Hazel Crest	2.4 miles	25
Country Club Hills	2.5 miles	25
West Harvey	2.5 miles	25
Homewood	2.6 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421684. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.