Melugin Grove, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Brooklyn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61378. The Survey maps it on the Compton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Melugin Grove within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Mendota quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Compton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Dixon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Compton quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

4,456 words on this township

History of Lee County, Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Brooklyn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Brooklyn Township - 4,456 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Burg	0.7 miles	11
Compton	1.9 miles	11
West Brooklyn	2.1 miles	10
Roxbury	3.9 miles	11
Twelvemile Corner	3.9 miles	11
Welland	6.0 miles	11
Shaws	6.5 miles	10
Scarboro	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 425687. 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.