BlockElderville, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wythe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62379. The Survey maps it on the Sutter quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1936 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Sutter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
11,715 words on this townshipHistory of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Wythe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This township contains the two recorded towns of Elderville and Prairieville, containing each a few houses only. Wythe, being prairie, was settled later than Walker and Montebello, on each side of it. Among its early settlers were named Benjamin F. Marsh, Sr.; Rodolphus Chandler, Mark Phelps, Andrew McMahan, William Crawford, Samuel Knox, Davidson Harris, Moses Hammond, Slocum Woolley, John S. Johnson, Robert Ayers, David Ayers, Samuel Chandler, Isaac Bliss, H. P. Griswold, Thomas Crawford, Joshua C. Berry, Lyman L. Calkin, Wm. A. Smith, L. Horney, Wm. J. Ash, J. D. Browning, William Wallace Reed, Wm. Jackson, Alonzo Sanford, Charles Ames, Wm. Shinn, L. L. Piggott, and the Robinsons, Yanewines, McGees, Butlers, Doughtys, Livelys and others.
Passage source: History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elderville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutter | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Basco | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Elvaston | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hamilton | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Breckenridge | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Warsaw | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| West Point | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Mallard | 8.5 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422661. 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.