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West Harvey, Illinois

25 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 60426. It lies near Kickapoo Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle.

West Harvey 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.

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 West Harvey 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 ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

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 West Harvey: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dixmoor0.6 miles25
Harvey1.1 miles25
North Harvey1.2 miles25
Posen1.3 miles25
Phoenix1.5 miles25
University Park2.5 miles25
Blue Island2.6 miles25
Markham2.7 miles25

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 Q122541400The 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 1837180. 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.