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East Springfield, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Capital Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62703. The Survey maps it on the Springfield West quadrangle.

East Springfield within Sangamon County

On record in East Springfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

9,795 words on this township

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Capital Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Capital Township - 9,795 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Springfield: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. ClayClayProspect
Springfield Clay Prod.Co.PitclayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Springfield Pit Solomon ServiceSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sangamon County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Springfield City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon 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
Springfield0.9 miles19
Grandview1.3 miles20
Shale Bluff1.7 miles20
Hawthorne Place1.9 miles19
Arlington Heights2.0 miles20
Starne2.2 miles20
Iles2.3 miles19
Ridgely2.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1747293. 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.