Dillon, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dillon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61568. The Survey maps it on the Delavan North quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Dillon within Tazewell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1942 USGS Delavan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Delavan North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Dillon township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 - Dillon Township

History Of Tazewei,L County

Matthias Mount came in 1833, Feb. 20. He served in the Black Hawk war, as Second Lieutenant in Co. C, 1st regt. He was at the battles of Wisconsin and Bad Axe, and attended the treaty at Rock Island, and says our portrait of Black Hawk is an excellent one. He had a horse shot from under him.

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In the county-history sources

4,088 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Dillon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Fifty-six years have come and gone since Nathan Dillon erected his cabin on section 1, of this township. It is claimed that he was the first settler in the county, save the old French traders, and for proof to substantiate this we refer the reader to his own words, recorded in the first chapter of this book. There is another claimant, however, to this honor. We refer the reader to William Blanchard's sketch in the history of Fond du Lac township. He brings a prior claim to that of Mr. Dillon's. We state the facts as clearly and pointedly as we can deduce them, and leave the readers to draw their own conclusions. It is useless to dwell at length upon the early history of this township, as that is embraced in the first chapter of this volume.

Passage source: History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879.

The first meeting after the the township mode of conducting county affairs was adopted, was held April 2, 1850. Nathan Dillon presided. A vote was taken, and Nathan Dillon elected Supervisor ; J. W. Musick, Clerk ; R. H. Hardy, Assessor ; J. B. Landet, Collector; Daniel Dillon, Com. of Poor; Abncr Rulon, Obediah Study vin and Samuel Berry, Com. of Highways; Sherrod Williams and Jesse Kinman, J. P. ; John B. Landet and Wm. Stockton, Constables ; Andrew Wallace, Pound Master. Nathan Dillon was the first Justice of the Peace in the township ; he held his commission from Governor Edwards.

Antioch Ghridian Church was the first Church organized in the township. The congregation was formed by Jesse Fisher, Jerome AValtmire, William Dillon, Abner Rulon, and others. The first edifice was built in 1838; the present one in 1858, at a cost of $600. The Elders are J. R. Cainpbell, Wm. Johnson, Rees Gatlis and Allen Leonard.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Dillon Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dillon: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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
Adwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ben Bollinger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clouse Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crabb Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hurley Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lucy Bolliger Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mcmullen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Woods Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillon in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A few tree limbs were blown down.
March 2025	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
September 2023	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Tremont	4.3 miles	15
Pekin Heights	6.0 miles	18
South Pekin	6.1 miles	14
Hawley (historical)	6.2 miles	18
Brownwood	6.5 miles	14
Holmes	6.9 miles	13
Schaeferville	7.0 miles	18
Midway	7.2 miles	18

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 Dillon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033955	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 407219. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.