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Gerald, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Compromise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61862. The Survey maps it on the Penfield quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Gerald within Champaign County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

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 Gerald: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rantoul City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Champaign 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dailey2.4 miles14
Penfield2.4 miles13
Gifford5.4 miles16
Royal5.8 miles14
Flatville7.2 miles20
Dillsburg8.5 miles16
Pauline10.7 miles20
Ogden10.9 miles15

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 GeraldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5548850The 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 422733. 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.