Gilead, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Gilead precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62006. It lies near Salt Spring Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Foley quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Gilead within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1930 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Foley quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Foley quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gilead: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Kritesville Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect
Calhoun Cty Hwy Dept	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Calhoun Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Star City	0.8 miles	15
Birch Island	0.9 miles	15
Kritesville	1.7 miles	15
Hardin	3.4 miles	14
Turner Landing	4.0 miles	15
Batchtown	6.3 miles	15
Hamburg	7.8 miles	15
Michael	8.0 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 Gilead	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5561568	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 409003. 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.