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Maizetown, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Carroll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61850. The Survey maps it on the Sidell quadrangle.

Maizetown within Vermilion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

15,822 words on this township

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; History of Vermilion County, Illinois : a Tale of Its Evolution, Settlement, and Progress for Nearly a Century, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Carroll Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Carroll Township - 15,822 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maizetown: 1 plant. All of them 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
Fairmount Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Vermilion 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
Jamaica2.6 miles14
Sidell3.2 miles14
Indianola3.9 miles15
Archie4.3 miles14
Hastings5.6 miles14
Fairmount6.5 miles16
Ryan6.6 miles16
Busenville7.2 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 Q122543498The 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 422931. 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.