BlockVanished settlements of Cook County, Illinois
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Cook County, Illinois that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irondale | Lake Calumet quadrangle | 0.8 miles north of Ironworkers Addition to South Chicago | 26 sheets, 1892 to 1997 | |
| Lincoln Square | Chicago Loop quadrangle | 0.3 miles south-west of Bowmanville | 24 sheets, 1889 to 1997 | |
| Mount Forest | Palos Park quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-west of Willow Springs | 27 sheets, 1890 to 1997 | |
| Robert Taylor Homes | Englewood quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-west of Fuller Park | 26 sheets, 1889 to 1997 | |
| Stateway Gardens | on Bubbly Creek (historical), Englewood quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-east of Bronzeville | 26 sheets, 1889 to 1997 | |
| Techny | Park Ridge quadrangle | 0.5 miles west of The Commons | 19 sheets, 1900 to 1995 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.