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Lucas, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eminence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62635. The Survey maps it on the Armington quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Lucas within Logan 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.

In the county-history sources

2,467 words on this township

History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878; History of Logan County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Person, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886; History of Logan County Illinois, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Eminence Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Eminence Township - 2,467 words.

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
Union1.3 miles13
Mountjoy4.7 miles13
Hartsburg5.5 miles14
Evans5.9 miles14
Emden6.3 miles14
Lawndale7.6 miles14
Atlanta7.8 miles13
Bell8.0 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.

Wikidata item Q6696052The 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 422925. 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.