Ophiem, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lynn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61468. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orion quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Ophiem within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1937 USGS Orion quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Orion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Orion quadrangle1:24000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lynn township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 - Lynn Township

Forty-Third Regiment I. Y. I.

The Forty-third was organized at Camp Butler, 111., Sept. 1861, by Col. Julius Raitli. Was at the battles, of Fort Donelsoii, Shiloh (losing 200 killed and wounded ), and Siege of Corinth. In sjiring of 1863, 200 men were mounted. The regiment was moved to Memphis, and thence into Arkansas, where it was constantly on the track of guenilla bands.

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In the county-history sources

6,007 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877; Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lynn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lynn Township - 6,007 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ophiem: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Orlo Woodcock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Lynn Center	3.4 miles	11
Alpha	4.2 miles	11
Andover	5.8 miles	11
Oxford (historical)	6.0 miles	11
Woodhull	6.3 miles	11
Orion	7.1 miles	12
Osco	8.7 miles	11
Sunny Hill Estates	10.2 miles	14

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 Ophiem	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7097920	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 415140. 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.