Fargo, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62375. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Fargo within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

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 Fargo: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mt.Sterling Clay Pit & Mill	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Timewell	2.6 miles	14
Buckhorn	2.7 miles	12
Mount Sterling	4.9 miles	12
Hersman	6.2 miles	12
White Oak Springs (historical)	6.5 miles	12
Siloam	6.7 miles	11
Benville	7.6 miles	11
Damon	7.7 miles	14

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 Fargo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5435093	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 422690. 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.