BlockDeLong, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61436. It stands on Brunk Creek. The Survey maps it on the DeLong quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1927 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS De Long quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS De Long quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,382 words on this townshipAnnals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921 names this settlement in its chapter on Orange Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Isreal Turner emigrated from Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1837. He entered two hundred and forty acres on Section 32, remaining there until he died. Anderson Barnett also came in the same year, settling on Section 10. To him belonged the distinction of begetting the largest family of children (eighteen) ever reared in the township.
Passage source: Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnside (historical) | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Hermon | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Abingdon | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Saluda | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Bridgeport (historical) | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Gilson | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Knoxville | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Maquon | 7.5 miles | 16 |
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 DeLong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14687479 | 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 407021. 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.