Georgetown, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cherry Grove-Shannon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61046. The Survey maps it on the Boone Branch quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Mt Carroll quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Mt Carroll quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Mt. Carroll quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Boone Branch quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Heldt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
L. Poffenberger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lake Carroll Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
McKenna Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Witt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Zier Cors	1.0 miles	14
Lanark	2.6 miles	14
Kittredge	2.7 miles	14
Lake Carroll	3.5 miles	14
Shannon	4.8 miles	14
Ashdale Junction	6.3 miles	14
Mount Carroll	8.5 miles	14
Chadwick	9.3 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.

Wikidata item Q5546938

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 422732. 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.