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Saint Mary, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in St. Mary Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62367. The Survey maps it on the Plymouth quadrangle.

Saint Mary within Hancock 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Mary: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tennessee Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
O'Neal QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hancock 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
Plymouth3.8 miles14
Middle Creek5.3 miles14
Joetta6.0 miles14
Augusta8.1 miles15
Webster9.0 miles14
Fountain Green9.1 miles14
Bentley9.4 miles14
Pulaski9.9 miles15

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 Saint MaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60742093The 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 417530. 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.