BlockMount Carroll, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Carroll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61053. The Survey maps it on the Mount Carroll quadrangle. 1,479 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Carroll
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 4 records
Carroll County Courthouselisted 1973
Nathaniel Halderman Houselisted 1980
Caroline Mark Houselisted 1983
Mount Carroll Historic Districtlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMount Carroll fell from 1,717 to 1,479 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,717 | |
| 2020 | 1,479 | -238 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Mt Carroll quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Mt Carroll quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Mt. Carroll quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mt. Carroll quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Mount Carroll township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Mount Carroll City
ALI^ISOX JOkSKPH F. County Treasurer; born near Toronto, Canaila, October 19, 1«88; came to the States in infancy; came to Carroll Co. in iy40, and has lived here 37 years; one of the early settlers; was in the army during the Rebellion - in ir)tii Rogt. I. V. I., Co. H; was wounded at llatehee Kiver, Tenn., and at Champion Hills, Miss.; was in battle Pittsburg Landing, siege Vicksl)urg, Coriuth and Atlanta; was elected Circuiit Clerk, 18«8; was elected Treasurer of Carroll Co., 1«7;{, and re-electi'd, 1S7."> ami 1877; married Miss Ilallie A.
In the county-history sources
50,218 words on this townshipThe History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Mount Carroll Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This certificate was returned to the County Commissioners' Court and ordered to be spread upon the record, and is to be seen on the Oth page ot within the territory of the county there were only three precmcts or voting places - Savanna, Plum River and Elkhorn Grove. Only two places for the county seat were voted for - Savanna, and Section 9 jn townshii) 24: north, range 5 east, about three miles to_ the southeast ot Mount Carroll. The vote in the three precincts was as follows:
Passage source: The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878.
A third addition of 40 by 100 feet at the northeast corner of the buildings already erected, was commenced in 1S65 and completed in 1867. It has four stories and a fifteen-room attic - adding, all told, seventy-one rooms, and increasing the other conveniences in like proportion, and costing about $30,000. As in the construction of the other additions, so in this one. Miss Wood superintended the building from its commencement to its completion. She contracted for the lumber with Minnesota Mills, and had it delivered in strings of rafts at Savanna. There she contracted with planing mills to receive it, reduce it to proper dimensions for particular purposes, to dress it and deliver it on the cars, having also contracted with the railroad authorities to deliver'it from Savanna at the Mount Carroll depot. In this way she maintains that she saved fully, if not more than half in the cost of the lumber as compared with the price asked by dealers here. Lime, glass, paint, paper, etc., were bought the same way. The stone used was taken from her own quarries by men hired by the day.
Passage source: The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878.
Through the influence of Hon. E. B. Washburn, this institution was made one of the depositories of copies of all the public documents published at Washington, of which there are thirty to forty volumes of every session of Congress. Besides these, there is a library of about 3,000 volumes that is considered very complete. The music rooms are furnished with the best of pianos and organs, as well as with the most proficient teachers. In all its details the Mount Carroll Seminary ranks among the best institutions in the country. It has ample facilities for the accommodation of 180 pupils, and has turned out about sixty graduates since the adoption of a regular course of study, in i860. For the last ten years, it has maintained an average yearly attendance of 175 pupils, coming from all the Western states.
Passage source: The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878.
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 Mount Carroll Township - it names this place 15 more 15 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mount Carroll: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heisler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ben Fecke Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Carroll County Hwy Dept | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| G.D. Campbell Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Graharing Quarrynelson Qy. Prod. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sorenson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Turnbaugh Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Carroll in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Carroll | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashdale Junction | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Center Hill | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Daggett (historical) | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Burke | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Wacker | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Hickory Grove | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Polsgrove | 5.6 miles | 21 | |
| Argo Fay | 6.6 miles | 21 |
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 Mount Carroll | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575470 | 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 413953. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.