BlockPigeon, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Farrington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62814. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:48000
- 1933 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Harmony quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,209 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Farrington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Farrington Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Stratton | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bluford | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Markham City | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Divide | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Marlow | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Shields | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Camp Ground | 5.7 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1736241. 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.