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Orangemans Hall, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Preemption Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61264. The Survey maps it on the Matherville quadrangle.

Orangemans Hall within Mercer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

1,753 words on this township

Past and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Preemption Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Preemption Township - 1,753 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 Orangemans Hall: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Mercer 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Preemption1.3 miles18
Matherville3.7 miles18
Boden4.0 miles18
Sherrard5.4 miles18
Cable5.7 miles18
Old Gilchrist5.8 miles12
Wanlock6.6 miles12
Shale City6.7 miles12

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 Q122571155The 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 423047. 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.