Pinhook, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vandalia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62471. It stands on Overcup Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vandalia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pinhook within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1945 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,792 words on this township

History of Fayette County, Illinois, published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Vandalia Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Vandalia Township - 1,792 words.

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
Augsburg	3.2 miles	10
Bluff City	3.8 miles	9
Shobonier	4.0 miles	10
Vandalia	4.7 miles	9
Wilberton	4.9 miles	11
Confidence	5.8 miles	11
Saint Paul	5.8 miles	11
Brownstown	7.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1773097. 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.