Hickory Grove, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Ellington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62305. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quincy East quadrangle.

Hickory Grove within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1925 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1945 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Quincy East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Quincy East 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 Hickory Grove: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Campbell Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Meyers Plant No. 8 & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quincy City Public Wks & Bridge Dpt	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Cheshire Hills	2.0 miles	19
Holiday Hills	2.3 miles	19
Meadowbrook	2.6 miles	19
Glendale	2.7 miles	19
Ewbanks	2.9 miles	19
Lincoln Hills	3.1 miles	19
Woodlawn Court	3.1 miles	19
Hillside Manor	3.7 miles	19

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 Q4497537

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 410150. 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.