Macoupin, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62626. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plainview quadrangle.

Macoupin within Macoupin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1912 USGS Gillespie quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Gillespie quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

604 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Polk Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Polk township is located in the western half of Macoupin county and is bounded on the north by Bird, on the east by Brushy Mound, on the south by Hilyard and on the west by Chesterfield townships. The soil is very rich and productive, being drained by Macoupin creek and its tributaries, the principal ones of which are Silver creek, Lick creek, Dry fork, May's branch and Sugar creek. Along these streams was originally found timber, consisting of oak, maple, hickory, white and red elm, black and white walnut, sycamore and cottonwood. There is still some timber to be found in this region. Along the water courses the land is broken and rolling but in the valley and bottom fine grazing land is to be found.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

The first settlements were made in this township in 1825, when Daniel Deadrick, Irvin Smith, Shadrach Reddick and Abraham Smith came with their families and located near where the Chicago & Alton railroad crosses Macoupin creek. Each erected a log cabin and began to improve a farm.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

The early settlers had to go long distances to mill, sometimes going to John Irvin's mill south of Carrollton, in Greene county, and at other times to Tegard's mill, east of Carlinville. There was no mill in Polk township until 1850, when Stephen Marshall erected a grist mill, which was located on section 28, on Macoupin creek and was run by water power.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Polk Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Macoupin: 2 occurrences. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
	Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin 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
Plainview	4.1 miles	12
Comer	5.5 miles	14
Carlinville	6.1 miles	14
Chesterfield	6.3 miles	11
Enos	6.6 miles	11
Royal Lakes	7.1 miles	12
Reader	7.8 miles	11
Centerville	7.8 miles	12

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 Q122590807

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 422929. 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.