BlockHeaton, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60963. The Survey maps it on the Ambia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1933 USGS Hoopeston quadrangle1:48000
- 1938 USGS Hoopeston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Ambia quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
30,917 words on this townshipHistory of Vermilion County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Grant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Edmund Heaton, Hoopeston, farmer and school-teacher, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1853. He is a son of Hugh and Levia (McCoy) Heaton. His mother died on the 21st of April, 1861, in Holmes county, Ohio. In the spring of 1863 he came to St. Joseph county, Indiana, and the next spring to Vermilion county, Illinois, settling in Grant township. Here he has since lived. In 1877 he went to Marion county, Iowa, and from thence, in 1878, traveled in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, spending the season in those places, sight-seeing, for pleasure and profit, returning in the fall to Vermilion county, Illinois. He has been employed during several winters past in teaching school. He is a republican in politics. His great-uncle, Albert McCoy, a prominent lawyer of Missouri, was killed for his Unionism by guerrillas in 1862.
Passage source: History of Vermilion County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1879.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Heaton: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrick Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bush Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| National Gravel Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heaton in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Hail | Heaton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| College Corners | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Coalton | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Cheneyville | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Rossville Junction | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rossville | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hoopeston | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Village of Alvan (Alvin) | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Barlow Park | 7.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422793. 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.