Forty Acres, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Farmington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61531. The Survey maps it on the Farmington West quadrangle.

Forty Acres within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1912 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Farmington West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

8,301 words on this township

History of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Farmington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Farmington Township - 8,301 words.

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
Farmington	1.6 miles	16
Gilchrist	2.4 miles	16
Norris	3.7 miles	16
Middlegrove	4.3 miles	16
Brereton	4.7 miles	17
Village Square	7.8 miles	17
Prospect Heights Addition	7.9 miles	17
East Lawndale	8.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1719517. 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.