Old Princeton, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Philadelphia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62691. The Survey maps it on the Virginia quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Old Princeton within Cass 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.

1932 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

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
Little Indian	2.1 miles	12
Burlingame	3.1 miles	12
Kisch	3.3 miles	12
Philadelphia	4.0 miles	13
Virginia	5.7 miles	12
Gurney (historical)	6.2 miles	13
Anderson	7.2 miles	12
Jules	8.0 miles	11

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 Old Princeton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7084784	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 423039. 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.