Maple Point, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62428. It stands on Opossum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Union Center quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Maple Point within Cumberland 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.

1933 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Union Center quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Union Center quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Maple Point: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Greenup Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
C&H Gravel East Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
C&H Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
East Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Greenup Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cumberland 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
Union Center	1.7 miles	12
Timothy	2.2 miles	12
Vevay Park	4.8 miles	12
Greenup	6.4 miles	13
Bradbury	6.9 miles	12
Janesville	7.5 miles	12
Dees	7.9 miles	13
Toledo	8.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Maple Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6753954	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 422936. 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.