BlockFilson, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Arcola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61910. The Survey maps it on the Hindsboro quadrangle. It stands 646 feet above sea level.
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 Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1936 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,848 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Arcola Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Arcola Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kemp | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Arcola | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Galton | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hindsboro | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Hugo | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hillcrest | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Meadowview | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Patterson Springs | 7.4 miles | 11 |
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 Filson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5449212 | 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 408369. 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.