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Hazelhurst, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elkhorn Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61064. The Survey maps it on the Hazelhurst quadrangle.

Hazelhurst within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

560 words on this township

The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Elkhorn Grove Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Elkhorn Grove Township - 560 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hazelhurst: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Graehling QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reid QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shank QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazelhurst in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Elkhorn1.4 miles11
Hitt3.4 miles11
Elkhorn Grove4.0 miles14
Milledgeville4.7 miles11
Chadwick11.4 miles14
Lanark12.4 miles14
Kittredge12.7 miles14
Fair Haven12.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409992. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.