Russellville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Boone Township. It stands on Geryune Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belvidere North quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Russellville within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1918 USGS Belvidere quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Belvidere quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Belvidere North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Russellville: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Belvidere Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Belvidere Sand & Stone Co. Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cordray Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Meyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spencer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spots Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boone 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
Poplar Grove	3.4 miles	14
Timberlane	4.1 miles	14
Candlewick Lake	4.3 miles	14
Capron	5.5 miles	16
Belvidere	5.5 miles	14
Beaverton Crossroads	5.9 miles	12
Garden Prairie	6.0 miles	14
Caledonia	6.4 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 Russellville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7381905	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 423141. 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.