Oak Point, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62420. The Survey maps it on the Moriah quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Oak Point within Clark 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.

1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Annapolis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Moriah quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Moriah quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oak Point: 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mengel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casey	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Casey South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lehigh Main Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Moriah	2.0 miles	14
Hogue Town	2.9 miles	14
Moonshine	4.5 miles	14
Casey	6.1 miles	17
Cumberland	6.4 miles	17
Neadmore	6.7 miles	14
Orange	8.2 miles	14
Martinsville	9.9 miles	17

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 Q7073683

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 1785504. 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.