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Overhead view of the quarry. Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide, and 450 feet (140 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry ...
Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,386 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry , one of the largest quarries in the world.
Thornton Quarry, just south of Chicago, Illinois. One of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles wide, and up to 450 feet deep, site of a Silurian reef. Quarried since 1836. The quarry also acts as an emergency flood control reservoir as part of Chicago Deep Tunnel project.
Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site; Centennial Beach; Civilian Conservation Corps Quarry No. 1 and Truck Trail; Civilian Conservation Corps Quarry No. 2; Clark and McCormack Quarry and House; Coldspring (company)
The Thornton Village Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.Situated in the crossroads at the intersection of Glen Mills and Thornton Roads in the village of Thornton, this district includes thirteen contributing buildings that were built between 1750 and 1855, some of which were created in the Federal style.
Egypt is situated about one mile (1.6 km) north-west of Thornton on a hairpin bend of a road between Well Heads and a junction with the B6144 road near Wilsden, and at the top (western) end of the marked valley of Bell Dean in which a stream runs roughly in an eastern direction. [1]
The Alameda County Water District acquired the quarry after the pumping was declared to be an illegal waste in 1976. The Park is located roughly between Centerville and Niles. It is bounded to the northeast by the train tracks of the BART system, and to the south and west by Alameda Creek.
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