Saxon, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wethersfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61434. The Survey maps it on the Kewanee South quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Saxon within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1944 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Kewanee South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

6,076 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Wethersfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

CAVANAGH PATRICK, Farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. Saxon; born in Ireland in 1817; came to Henry Co. in 1840; Dem; Cath; owns 200 acres land, val. $15,000; married Bridget Hunt, of Ireland, in 1839; seven children, James, Lawrence, Thomas, Ann, Mary Jane, Agnes and Bridget.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

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 Wethersfield Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

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 Saxon (historical): 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Stark County Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Kewanee	6.7 miles	11
Galva	8.0 miles	14
Brandenburg Corners	8.7 miles	10
German Corner	12.2 miles	11
Bishop Hill	12.5 miles	14
Ulah	15.7 miles	11
Nekoma	15.8 miles	14
Annawan	16.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1812599. 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.