BlockOliver, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61270. The Survey maps it on the Union Grove quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1891 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1899 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000
- 1899 USGS Cordova quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Union Grove quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,986 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Grove Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first school taught in the township was by Miss Mary Jeffers, in the summer of 1838, in a log cabin owned by Henry Boyer. Miss Jeffers was afterwards married to John Kent, which was the first wedding in the township. The first death was that of James Heaton, son of William Heaton, who lived in Mt. Pleasant Township. He died in 1840, and was buried in the woods in the Heaton neighborhood. The body was afterwards removed to the Heaton burying-ground.
Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States, published 1885.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oliver: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Dykstra Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Huizenga Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Ls Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Grove | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Garden Plain | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Unionville | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Newton Corners | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Fenton | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Morrison | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| East Clinton | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Little Oklahoma | 5.9 miles | 19 |
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 Q65041706 | 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 1718941. 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.