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Crawfordsville, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62427. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Birds quadrangle. It stands 449 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.

Crawfordsville within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

1,452 words on this township

ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Montgomery Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Montgomery Township - 1,452 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crawfordsville (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Goodhope Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Oil Grove1.5 miles13
Flat Rock2.4 miles13
Morea4.6 miles13
Villas5.0 miles13
Heathsville5.8 miles15
Port Jackson5.8 miles12
Duncanville6.2 miles13
New Hebron7.0 miles13

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 Crawfordsville (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5182939The 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 1807711. 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.