Bourbonais, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61314. The Survey maps it on the Buda quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bourbonais within Bureau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1921 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Buda quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bourbonais (historical): 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Stroude Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wyanet Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wyanet Pit B. Baughn	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau 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
Buda	2.6 miles	10
Wyanet	3.1 miles	10
Langley	3.3 miles	10
Burnett	4.8 miles	10
Providence	5.1 miles	10
Sheffield	5.5 miles	10
Tiskilwa	7.7 miles	10
Manlius	8.0 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Bourbonais (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4950117	The 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 1822630. 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.